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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time

8 best books like When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time (Michael J. Benton): Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
AuthorNick Lane
ISBN0198607830
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two...
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
AuthorCarl Zimmer
ISBN0684856239
Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
AuthorRobert T. Bakker
ISBN0806522607
This groundbreaking book reveals that, far from being sluggish reptiles, dinosaurs were actually agile, fast, warm-blooded, and intelligent. The author explodes the old orthodoxies and gives us a convincing picture of how dinosaurs hunted, fed, mated, fought and died.Containing over 200 detailed...
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
AuthorRichard Fortey
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
AuthorEugenie C. Scott
ISBN0520246500
The evolution versus creationism conflict is here to stay. Even after their devastating defeat in the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision, advocates of intelligent design and other forms of creationism continue to revise their strategies for undermining the teaching of evolution-and thus of science...
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
AuthorSean B. Carroll
ISBN0393327795
Dnf'd. Not because it is a bad book, boring or not well-written, but because it turns out that my appetite for evolutionary biology does not extend as far as embryology. I just cannot summon up the interest to concentrate and have to keep rereading and looking (again and again) at the illustrations. Maybe...
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
AuthorRichard Fortey
ISBN0375706216
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
AuthorDonald R. Prothero
ISBN0231139624
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...
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