"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece,
the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here
and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of
biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful
information, but, even with such additional help, our
reconstructions and our models of descent are often tentative. For
the fossil record is, as we have seen, as biased as it is
incomplete. But fragmentary, selective, and biased though it is,
the fossil record, with all its imperfections, is still a treasure.
Though whole chapters are missing, many pages lost, and the
earliest pages so damaged as to be, as yet, virtually unreadable,
this-the greatest biography of all-is one in whose closing pages we
find ourselves."-from Origins In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes
explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing
environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we
now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes
argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population
depends in no small part on our understanding of life's past, its
long and slow development, and its intricate interdependencies.
Rhodes's accessible and extensively illustrated treatment of the
origins narrative describes the nature of the search for
prehistoric life, the significance of geologic time, the origin of
life, the emergence and spread of flora and fauna, the evolution of
primates, and the emergence of modern humans.
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