Marvelous Microfossils - Creators, Timekeepers, Architects

De Wever's ode to the invisible world around us allows readers to peer directly into a minute microcosm with massive implications, even traversing eons to show us how life arose on Earth.

About the author

Patrick De Wever is a professor of geology and micropaleontology at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is the author of Temps de la Terre, temps de l'Homme and Carnet de curiosités d'un géologue.Translator and book editor Alison Duncan earned her master of science in translation from New York University and her bachelor of arts in French and Francophone studies from Vassar College. She is the translator of Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects.

Summary

De Wever's ode to the invisible world around us allows readers to peer directly into a minute microcosm with massive implications, even traversing eons to show us how life arose on Earth.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick De Wever
• Assisted by: Reeves Hubert (Foreword), Alison Duncan (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781421436739
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3673-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 290 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Paleontology, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Biology, life sciences, Earth Sciences, Palaeontology