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The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution
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The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution Hardback - 2010

by John A. Long

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Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like--and are--monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through The Rise of Fishes, John A. Long's richly illustrated tour of the past 500 million years. Long has updated his classic work with illustrations of recent fossil discoveries and new interpretations based on genetic analyses. He reveals how fishes evolved from ancient, jawless animals, explains why fishes have survived on the Earth for so long, and describes how they have become the dominant aquatic life-form. Indeed, to take things a step further, we learn much about ourselves through this book, for all amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are descendants of ancient fishes.

Clear, accessible, and engaging, The Rise of Fishes combines scientific expertise with entertaining stories about Long's own excursions, which span the oceans and continents. The book includes photographs of fossils from around the world as well as dramatic color illustrations depicting what those fishes may have actually looked like.

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  • Title The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution
  • Author John A. Long
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition second edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date 2010-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801896958 / 0801896959
  • Weight 2.93 lbs (1.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.26 x 8.78 x 1 in (28.60 x 22.30 x 2.54 cm)
  • Age range 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Fishes - Evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010009524
  • Dewey Decimal Code 597.138

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  • Choice, 06/01/2011, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2011, Page 303

About the author

John A. Long is the vice president of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His numerous books include Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution and Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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