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Aug 26, 2014 · At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea. Carl Zimmer. Simon and Schuster, Aug 26, 2014 - Science - 304...
Within that enormous realm, Carl Zimmer’s subject is “the transitions from fish to tetrapod, and from land mammal to whale”–in other words, how life left the water and created the whole class of terrestrial vertebrates and how, in mammal form, it returned to the oceans.
Sep 8, 1999 · At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea Paperback – September 8, 1999. by Carl Zimmer (Author) 4.5 160 ratings. See all formats and editions.
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Sep 8, 1999 · The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...
Jan 1, 2001 · At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea. Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell (Illustrator) 4.08. 2,072 ratings57 reviews. Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world.
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Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea. By Carl Zimmer. LIST PRICE $11.99. PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER. Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today! . Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love.
Aug 26, 2014 · During a wet period when plants were creeping toward the water's edge and swamps abounded with life, these fish developed fins with fingers and toes to maneuver on muddy bottoms and pick at plant life while staying mainly in the water.
