Evolution of the earth

by Robert H. Dott Jr., Roger L. Batten

A revision of our bestselling Historical Geology textbook, this edition is now being co-authored by Donald Prothero. Completely revised and updated, this edition is now available in full color. New sections include Origin of Life and Metazoans, Human Evolution, and a section on Paleozoic Life.

Genres: Science, Geology, Evolution, Nonfiction, History, Biology

643 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Michael Helm]

A very good historical geology book with its own long history.
It does become very North American - centered after a while, which may reflect the knowledge
bases of Dr Prothero & Dr Dott.
If you want a taste of what coverage of other areas - those other books - might be like,
see the TV series "Voyage of the Continents", still on Amazon Prime as of this writing,
French origin.

I was watching Neil Shubin's show Our Inner Fish & the story of the discovery of Tiktaalik.
In one scene Shubin & his advisor opened their undergrad geology book & used a map in it to find the
next place to go prospecting (which is where their tetrapod was eventually found).
That map is still in this book - I was able to find it while watching.

[Mohammed Alzahrani]

I liked the parts that explained the evolution of life, but I hated that the book was giving extensive examples only for North America.
Also I would have liked little introductions about the time scale of each period and their subdivisions.

[Jeff Rudisel]

Text Book.
Robert H. Dott, Jr.
Roger L. Batten
Third Edition.

[Torkel]

Good textbook on geology. I wish I had manged to get hold of a newer edition. Afraid that some of the book is a little outdated.