Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life

by Henry Gee

Book Overview

Nature has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigative techniques drawn from cladistics (a revolutionary method for charting evolutionary relationships) and molecular biology.

Shaking the Tree brings together nineteen review articles written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226284972
• ISBN13: 9780226284972
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"