Evolution Revolution

Design without intelligence

By: Ken McNamara, John Long

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Paperback | 24 January 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Impeccably researched, remarkably readable and punctuated with good humour, The Evolution Revolution puts a human face on the enterprise of palaeontology.

3.8 billion years ago life evolved.

540 million years ago came the first complex animals.

380 million years ago fish had evolved fins with arm bones that humans have today.

So are humans a case study for or against evolution?

The Evolution Revolution takes you on a rollicking ride through the past 3.8 billion years of life on Earth exploring the complex and often controversial issue of evolution. Join two of Australia's most accomplished popular science writers, palaeontologists Ken McNamara and John Long, on field trips that unearth some of the world's most significant fossils, from microbes to mighty mammals, including the feathered dinosaurs that make the link between reptiles and birds.

The authors take us through the dramatic transition from fins to limbs, how the first insects flew, why dinosaurs got so big and how life has evolved into nearly every nook and cranny on Earth. The major fossil discoveries of the past decade they have documented comprehensively debunk the notion of intelligent design. Like it or not, along with dinosaurs, donkeys and dahlias we too came from bacteria that swam in the primordial soup.

Impeccably researched, remarkably readable and punctuated with good humour, The Evolution Revolution puts a human face on the enterprise of palaeontology. It is essential reading for anyone interested in fossils and the big events in life history.

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Earth Sciences Palaeontology Archaeology Science Science in General Popular Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Evolution Society & Culture

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Inside evolution: a new look at evolution	p. 1
We are the champions!: the long-playing microbial fossil record	p. 16
Rise of the gutless wonders: early animal evolution	p. 32
Cambrian dreamtime menagerie: Hallucigenia, Jianfengia and other taxonomic nightmares	p. 51
Heads or tails?: the evolution of the first backboned animals	p. 66
Walk on the wild side: the colonisation of land	p. 80
Jaw wars: the empire bites back: the evolution of jawed fishes	p. 95
Tracking down the bugs: the evolution of insects	p. 112
First foot forward: the vertebrates' escape from the sea	p. 125
Say it with flowers: evolution in plants	p. 142
Monsters of the deep: Mesozoic marine reptiles	p. 156
Reign of pterosaurs: the first flying vertebrates	p. 169
Dinosaurs of the twilight zone: polar dinosaur faunas	p. 184
Birds of a feather: the early evolution of birds	p. 197
Battle of the bulge: why did dinosaurs grow so big?	p. 212
Nothing but the tooth: Gondwana's treasure trove of fossil mammals	p. 228
Murder and mayhem in the Miocene: predation pressure driving evolution	p. 244
Children of the evolution: human evolution from the inside	p. 260
Notes	p. 275
Index	p. 295
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