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In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life (Comstock Books)

paperback – December 21, 2000
by Gee, Henry
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ISBN-13: 9780801487132 ISBN-10: 0801487137
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
December 21, 2000
Weight
0.9 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×1.90×15.20 cm

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In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life (Comstock Books) by Gee, Henry. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801487132.

Cladistics—the science of comparison—is transforming the way paleontologists view evolution. In Search of Deep Time strips away conventional assumptions about the evolution of life to reveal a world that may be far stranger and more humbling than had been previously imagined. The concept of deep time was first used by John McPhee to describe intervals of time incomprehensibly greater than our daily experience. Henry Gee explains the rise of cladistics as the best technique for making sense of the organic changes that unfold within deep time.