false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643282m/163529.jpg 163529 3 <I>At the Water's Edge</I> will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to <I>Homo sapiens</I> today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us.<P>We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago.<P>In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.<P> 1233 1998 At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea total:68|5:20|4:31|3:14|2:2|1:1| 68 271 151 8 5 2 false false Mon Aug 25 13:23:51 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:17:23 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:23:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 23:09:52 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 10:23:31 -0800 2009
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