The Hidden Life of Life : : A Walk through the Reaches of Time / / Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-pictu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 1 illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. About This Book
- 2. Our Bedroom
- 3. Microbes
- 4. Protists
- 5. Fungi
- 6. Animals
- 7. Dry Land
- 8. Lichens
- 9. Plants
- 10. Arthropods on Land
- 11. Vertebrates
- 12. Amphibians
- 13. Proto-Mammals
- 14. Dinosaurs
- 15. Pterosaurs
- 16. Crocodiles
- 17. Birds
- 18. Mammals
- 19. From Monkeys to the Missing Link
- 20. The Line to Homo Sapiens
- 21. Neandertals
- 22. Why Do We Look the Way We Look
- 23. The San, Formerly Known as Bushmen
- 24. Gaia’s Rule One:
- 25. Gaia’s Rule Two:
- 26. Gaia’s Rule Three:
- 27. The Present
- 28. The Future
- CODA
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS