from psiloiordinary

A very rare occurrence, five out of five stars. First of all I like all the small unimportant things about it. It's a hardback, and a good quality one, with heavy paper and a lovely cover, and colour plates, and nice margins for scribbling notes, and a thorough index and bibliography (breathe). B...

from SkepChris

It is the most complete book I've seen on this topic. You get a hardcover fully illustrated book that likes to be shown on your coffee table for a very reasonable price. Also looks very good on your LibraryThing list.

from Atomicmutant

I've somewhere between 60-100 books covering the subjects of Evolution and Paleontology, and this is the most comprehensive of the bunch. It veers a little into the technical in the middle sections for a casual read, but is always clear and understandable. This is a great book! Prothero also take...

from setnahkt

Evolution, by vertebrate paleontologist Donald Prothero, is a mix of fairly technical overview of vertebrate evolution with polemics against creationism and intelligent design. Prothero has made something of a secondary career out of debating creationists – he learned Greek and Hebrew so he could...

from Devil_llama

A detailed look at the fossil record, in an attempt to answer the challenge that there are no transitional fossils, or that the fossils show a pattern other than evolution. The author avoids most of the dense jargon that could make such a book inaccessible to the lay audience it is aimed at; he e...