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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is an excellent introduction to the history of fishes. The volume is well-illustrated. It has a glossary and is indexed ( ) Fish fossils, actually fossils of any kind, are fascinating. This is a nice assortment. While the author and I probably agree on how cool these fossilized fish are, he probably would take issue with my belief that these fish were buried in the world-wide flood as described in Genesis. But that doesn't stop me from thinking that this is still a neat book, textual errors aside. no reviews | add a review
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Fishes have a unique evolutionary history that stretches back in time more than 450 million years. They are incredibly ancient-older than the dinosaurs-and include the ancestors of all limbed vertebrates living on land, even humans.In Discovering Fossil Fishes , John Maisey traces the evolution of fishes over the course of nearly half a billion years, describing the discovery of their extraordinary fossil remains and explaining what these ancient animals tell us about our own place in the history of life. Combining current scientific information with entertaining tales about historic and contemporary fieldwork, Maisey brings to life the development of armored fishes, monster sharks, and fishes with arms as he reveals the subtleties of evolution's greatest success story.More abundant and more diverse than their air-breathing cousins, fishes today dominate the seas and freshwaters of Earth. Through outstanding full-color photographs of their fossils and of fossil reconstructions by artists David Miller and Ivy Rutzky, along with informative photographs, charts, diagrams, and drawings, we discover a staggering half-billion-year history in which lies our own watery origins. No library descriptions found. |
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