Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction – The Story of the Giant Softshell Turtle of the Yangtze and Red Rivers This book introduces students to

This book introduces students to biological evolution starting with Darwin’s theory of evolution and how species develop over time

The purpose of the symposium was to address the relationship between the acquisition of novel locomotor strategies and the origin and radiation of major groups of primates

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Publisher Jakeman and Carver Publisher Place Hereford

Heterocera: Sphinges et Bombyces and Part 2 covers Heterocera: Noctuae

Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction – The Story of the Giant Softshell Turtle of the Yangtze and Red Rivers This book introduces students toPp. (8), ii, 174; 120+ color photos, 3 black and white photos, some maps. Publishers original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. This work documents the last remaining members of the species, Rafetus swinhoei. This species is found along the Red River and its tributaries in northern Vietnam and in the Yangtze River in China. A related species is found in the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq,