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Here be dragons: how the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of life and Earth

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Denis McCarthy's highly engaging account of biogeography shows how two great theories - evolution and plate tectonics - explained the pattern of life on Earth.

It is a story of elephant birds and pygmy mammoths, and the gradual acceptance of radical new ideas demonstrating that life and powerful physical forces constantly reshape our planet.

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Oxford University Press
0191619736 / 9780191619731
eBook (EPUB)
578.09
22/10/2009
England
English
122 pages
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