Rhodes F.H.T. Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past

Comstock Publishing Associates, 2016. — 341 p.In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life's past, its long and slow development, and its intricate interdependencies.
Rhodes’s accessible and extensively illustrated treatment of the origins narrative describes the nature of the search for prehistoric life, the significance of geologic time, the origin of life, the emergence and spread of flora and fauna, the evolution of primates, and the emergence of modern humans.Defrosting the Mammoth
Terrestrial Timepieces
From So Simple a Beginning
Classification: The Diversity of Life
Spineless Wonders
Bone, Scales, and Fins: The Early Vertebrates
The Greening of the Land
The Amphibian Foothold
The Reign of the Reptiles
The Air
The Blossoming Earth
The Rise of the Mammals
The Mammalian Explosion
The Leakeys' Legacy
Endless Forms, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful
On Extinction
Have Been and Are Being Evolved: The Development of Life