Trees of Life A Visual History of Evolution written by Theodore
W Pietsch John Hopkins University | ISBN 9781421404790 Hardback
– 376 pages Member’s price: $82.80 Usually ships within 2–11
business days. For the past 450 years, tree-like branching
diagrams have been created to show the complex and surprising
interrelationships of organisms, both living and fossil, from
viruses and bacteria to birds and mammals. This stunning book
celebrates the manifest beauty, intrinsic interest, and human
ingenuity of these exquisite trees of life. Theodore W. Pietsch
has chosen 230 trees of life - from among thousands of possible
contenders - dating from the sixteenth century to the present
day. His arrangement gives readers a visual sense of the
historical development of these diagrams and shows how, in
Darwin's words, "from so simple a beginning endless forms most
beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
Pietsch's brief, accessible prose accompanies the diverse trees
to fully reveal the engrossing