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Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey, HarperCollins

Richard Fortey unravels evolution through the eyes of the Trilobite, a crustacean-like animal who dominated the seas for three hundred million years.  Key to the evolutionary process, the Trilobite survived ice ages and volcanic eruptions and by studying them, we learn of the great cycles of earth history
   
 
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