A New Science Of Life
This book will change the way you think about the History of Life and our place within it. It introduces the revolutionary new approach called cladistics to looking at the history of life: a way at looking beyond the fossil record. Cladistics throws out old ideas of missing links and descent. Cladistics shows us the possibility of creatures wilder than human imagination could possibly conceive and shows us a way back to our ancestors through the almost unimaginable depths of evolutionary time.
These theories stress progress and descent in a seamless thread of missing links and fossil fragments. Cladistics and Deep Time have turned these old methodologies upsidedown by finding shared features as a route backwards in deep time to a common evolutionary heritage.
Using Deep Time palaeontologists can now define evolutionary change. Using this radical method to look at the past reveals strange, unexpected stories of evolutionary progress in the History of Life. This is a timely and extraordinary book, introducing cladistics to the popular science market for the first time.
