Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna

Alan Turner and Mauricio Anton

Paper, 304 pages, 54 color illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-11945-0
$26.95 / £15.95

October, 2004
Cloth, 304 pages, 54 color illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-11944-3
$75.00 / £44.00

Chapter 1 Dating, Continental Drift, Climate Change, and the Motor of Evolution

Chapter 2 The Background to Mammalian Evolution in Africa

Chapter 3 African Mammals, Past and Present

Chapter 4 Fossil Sites in Africa

Chapter 5 The Evolving African Mammalian Fauna

Epilogue

Further Reading

Index

Related Subjects

• Biology
• Paleontology
• Zoology

About the Author

Alan Turner is professor of Vertebrate paleontology at John Moores University in Liverpool, England, and former senior curator of paleontology at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author, with Mauricio Antón, of The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives. Mauricio Antón is a paleontological artist based at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. His work has appeared in National Geographic and Natural History, among other magazines. He has collaborated with the Discovery Channel and the BBC, most recently for the series Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. He is the author, with Jordi Agustí, of Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids.

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