prehistoric illustrated evolutionary encyclopedia

books:

The Prehistoric World

Warwick Press Visual World Library, 1976

Describes the geological and biological evolution of the earth from its formation to the development of the human.

The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric ...

5 reviews
Barry Cox, Colin Harrison, ...

Simon & Schuster, 1999

An engrossing and informative volume for laymen or experts
This volume is the best one I've found on prehistoric creatures. Having always been fascinated by them, I wanted as an adult to find something to broaden the base I'd built as a kid obsessed with Tyrannosaurus and trilobites. Though I'm far from a paleontologist or even a biologist (my own training is in anthropology and linguistics) I find this book a pleasure to browse and consult. ...

The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who's Who of ...

2 reviews
Dougal Dixon, Barry Cox, ...

Macmillan General Reference, 1993

Very interesting reading
Tracing the history of vertebrates, this interesting book provides good information about animals and how they evolved. The illustrations are also very good and interesting. I've read parts of this book to my little daughter and she loves looking at the pictures and imagining living back in time when these animals roamed the earth. Young earth creationists might want to avoid this book ...

Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach

1 review
C. Barry Cox, Peter D. Moore

Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Why the physical, tangible, real world is the way it is.
This excellent textbook is less than 300 pages, and yet I didn't feel like I learned any less than someone who read a 1000 page textbook on the same subject. This is a comprehensive, introductory volume that is, surprisingly for a textbook, extremely well written. This book delivered Biogeography to my mind, and my great teacher Dr Patrick Armstrong of Univeristy of Western Australia made it ...