Just finished reading The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years. It's a reasonably easy read and a comprehensive guide to what we know about the evolution of the whale. Do you guys know of any other books that provide a readable outline of the evolution of a clade?
Does it talk about that hip bone which has no current use? I've been interested in learning more about that.
>>8136017
Also interested.
While this isn't the same thing and it is fiction, but the book "Evolution" by Stephen Baxter follows humanities' evolution from tiny mouse-like creature to homo sapiens, to some other thing later on. It is actually pretty depressing.
>>8136021
Not enough to read it just for that. Really glosses over modern stuff and goes into each landmark fossil we have.
>>8136021
I think it's used for reproduction if I'm not mistaken.
>>8136017
Does it show pictures of the fossils themselves or just illustrations of the animals as they were in life?
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Both and has a narrative about the author finding a lot of them. It's a nice book. It definitely has pop-sci qualities to it and it reasonably approachable to someone who has taken a biology class. It's in my car right now. I'll take some pictures when i bring it in.
>>8136045
Alright.
I have this.
http://creationwiki.org/Ambulocetus
