内容简介

Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing the evolution of particular subgroups as they appeared on Earth with reference to detailed comparative anatomy, evolutionary legacies, and the breakthrough theories of eminent scientists. Accompanying the essays are amazing photographic features that investigate the characteristics of individual organisms in detail: in some, remarkable fossils, assembled skeletons, and lifelike reconstructions are presented and analyzed; while in others, living species are depicted and compared in detail to their direct ancestors, creatures that may have lived millions of years ago.

进化：整个故事包含了解地球生命发展和生存所需的一切。这本可访问和大量插图的书的每一章都是一个主要的生活小组，并提出专题论文，讨论特定小组在地球上出现时的演变，参考详细的比较解剖学，进化遗产和杰出科学家的突破性理论。伴随着散文的是惊人的摄影特征，详细研究了个体生物的特征：在一些中，提出并分析了非凡的化石，组装的骨骼和逼真的重建; 而在其他人中，生物物种被描绘和详细地与他们的直系祖先进行比较，这些生物可能是数百万年前的生物。