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Fossils: The Key to the Past (3rd edition)

Offers a detailed investigation of fossils and how they tell the story of life on Earth.

ISBN: 0565091638

Author: Richard Fortey

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Fossils: The Key to the Past (3rd edition)

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This revised and updated edition gives a straightforward introduction to fossils, their study and their use in reconstructing the history of the Earth. Extensively illustrated with photographs from the Museum’s collections, the book gives a current view of our understanding of the significance of fossil finds, and presents palaeontology as a living science.

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…authoritative and attractive…especially good sections on 'bringing fossils to life', on extinction, on the early life of the Precambrian and Cambrian'. Nature

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Paperback, 234 x 154 mm, 232 pp, 2002, colour plates, half-tones and line drawings, 0 565 09163 8. Published by the Natural History Museum.