Evolution
What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Recommended by Jerry Coyne, and 1 others. See all reviewsDonald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book's widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the... more
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Jerry Coyne It is the one book that lays out in great detail some of the strongest evidence for evolution, which is the fossil record. (Source)
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