History of life / Richard Cowen. -- 5th ed. -- Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013. – (58.3/C874/5th ed.)

Contents

    CONTENTS
    
    Preface vii
    About the Companion Website x
    1 The Origin of Life on Earth 1
    2 Earliest Life on Earth 17
    3 Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes 30
    4 The Evolution of Metazoans 41
    5 The Metazoan Radiation 54
    6 Changing Life in a Changing World 66
    7 The Early Vertebrates 84
    8 Leaving the Water 98
    9 Tetrapods and Amniotes 112
    10 Early Amniotes and Thermoregulation 122
    11 The Triassic Takeover 134
    12 Dinosaurs 144
    13 The Evolution of Flight 164
    14 The Modernization of Land and Sea 183
    15 The Origin of Mammals 199
    16 The End of the Dinosaurs 212
    17 Cenozoic Mammals 220
    18 Geography and Evolution 236
    19 Primates 249
    20 Evolving Toward Humans 259
    21 Life in the Ice Age 276
    Index 294