Life on Earth
6 total works
An illustrated account on the variety and diversity of life on Earth for young students. Topics include climates, fossils, early animals and insects, perissodactyls, tropical forests, boreal forests, deserts, mountains and the poles.
An illustrated over of what Earth was like before life took hold for young students. Topics include celestial bodies, clyclical processes, earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanic islands, soil and how it forms, tides and currents, oceanscapes and the arrival of life.
An illustrated account of what lives in the Earth's oceans for youngsters, coverage in cludes cephalochordates and extinct jawless fish, sharks and relatives, early bony fishes, extinct placodonts and nothosaurs, aquatic turtles, how whales evolved, prehistoric shore and water birds and much more.
An illustrated account, for youngsters, explaining what is known about the flight of animals. Coverage includes aerial plankton, gliding mammals, insect wings, hidden wings, evolution of pterosaurs, evolution of birds, feathers and much more.
The complete set of the Life on Earth books comprising In the Air, In the Sea, On the Land, Before Life, The First Humans and First Life. Fully illustrated they answer questions on how life began and developed and what the first humans were like.
An illustrated book for young students presenting an overview of what is known about the first humans. Topics include Lucy and friends, the rise of Homo sapiens, early life in the Ice, Stone, Bronze and Iron Age, famous fossil hunters, great sites and population growth.