Evolution in Action: Natural History Through Spectacular Skeletons

by DE PANAFIEU/GRIES, Patrick Gries

Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. "Evolution in Action", a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time. Now updated and presented in a smaller format with seventeen new utterly distinctive photographs, this book steps beyond the debate and presents the undeniable truth of Darwin's theory, showing through 200 photographs of skeletons both obscure and commonplace, but always intriguing, the process by which life has transformed itself, again and again.

Genres: Nonfiction, Natural History, Science, Biology, Evolution, Reference, Photography

424 pages, Hardcover

First published November 5, 2007

Reviews

[Matthew Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just a lovely book to read/admire.

[Kang]

之前看到feeds上推荐，不过借来发现不感兴趣。20260714

[Nathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book. Amazingly detailed and crisp photos. Wonderful words talking about the process of evolution through brief case studies. If you've stumbled upon this book, and are at all considering, it is worth your time to check it out.

[Tina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a stunning book. The photographs are beautiful and the skeletons are posed in interesting ways. If you love bones or natural history, you will adore this book.

[Brian Condra · Rating 5 out of 5]

a brilliant book.