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Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
Here Be Dragons How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
Author: Dennis McCarthy
Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in the Antarctic? Why do oceanic islands often have many types of birds but no large native mammals? As Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace travelled across distant lands studying the wildlife they both noticed that the distribution of plants and animals formed striking patter...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199542468
ISBN-10: 0199542465
Publication Date: 12/22/2009
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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