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Beasts of Eden : walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution /

Main Author: Wallace, David Rains, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Mammals > Evolution.
Mammals, Fossil.
Mammals.
Biological Evolution.
Fossils.
Mammifères > Évolution.
Mammifères fossiles.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119361
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue: The Fresco and the Fossil -- Pachyderms in the Catacombs -- Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws -- The Origin of Mammals -- The Noblest Conquest -- Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet -- Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon -- Fire Beasts of the Antipodes -- Titans on Parade -- Five-toed Horses and Missing Links -- The Invisible Dawn Man -- A Bonaparte of Beasts -- Love and Theory -- Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis -- Shifting Ground -- Dissolving Ancestries -- Exploding Faunas -- The Revenge of the Shell Hunters -- Simpson Redivivus -- Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum -- The Serpent's Offering -- Anthropoid Leapfrog -- Epilogue: Cenozoic Parks. 
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