Science Fiction wargame rules for large skirmishes, based on the popular Rampant system. Xenos Rampant is a setting agnostic, large skirmish, miniature wargame for fighting science fiction battles using 28mm figures. Developed from the popular Lio...
Though biogeographical patterns take a backseat to the grand narrative of descent, as an entry level textbook this is hard to surpass. (Frontiers of biogeography, 5 February 2013)
Richard Cowen learned how to write and think critically at Cambridge University, and how to teach and think creatively at the University of California, Davis. He received a campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993 and designed the course History of Life there. The book was written specifically for that course, and has gone on to become a best-selling textbook.
Preface vii About the Companion Website x 1 The Origin of Life on Earth 1 2 Earliest Life on Earth 17 3 Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes 30 4 The Evolution of Metazoans 41 5 The Metazoan Radiation 54 6 Changing Life in a Changing World 66 7 The Early Vertebrates 84 8 Leaving the Water 98 9 Tetrapods and Amniotes 112 10 Early Amniotes and Thermoregulation 122 11 The Triassic Takeover 134 12 Dinosaurs 144 13 The Evolution of Flight 164 14 The Modernization of Land and Sea 183 15 The Origin of Mammals 199 16 The End of the Dinosaurs 212 17 Cenozoic Mammals 220 18 Geography and Evolution 236 19 Primates 249 20 Evolving Toward Humans 259 21 Life in the Ice Age 276 Index 294