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The monkey's voyage, how improbable journeys shaped the history of life, Alan de Queiroz

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The monkey's voyage, how improbable journeys shaped the history of life, Alan de Queiroz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The monkey's voyage

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

859243670

Responsibility statement

Alan de Queiroz

Sub title

how improbable journeys shaped the history of life

Table Of Contents

Of garter snakes and Gondwana -- Earth and life -- From Noah's ark to New York : the roots of the story -- The fragmented world -- Over the edge of reason -- New Zealand stirrings -- Trees and time -- The DNA explosion -- Believe the forest -- The improbable, the rare, the mysterious, and the miraculous -- The green web -- A frog's tale -- The monkey's voyage -- The long, strange history of the Gondwanan islands -- Transformations -- The structure of biogeographic "revolutions" -- A world shaped by miracles -- Epilogue : the driftwood coast

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