Maru i Atama o Motto Maru ku! Nichinōken Kuesuto Kagaku no Chō Shinsō Kanburia Bakuhatsu to wa Nani ka!? Seimei no Bakuhatsu-Tekina Shinka no Nazo ni Semaru! [What is the Truth Behind the Cambrian Explosion? The Mystery of the Explosive Evolution of Life!]

By: Ken Tsuchiya(Author), Nichinōken(Author), Gengo Tanaka(Editor)

232 pages, b/w illustrations

Publisher: Kodansha

Maru i Atama o Motto Maru ku! Nichinōken Kuesuto Kagaku no Chō Shinsō Kanburia Bakuhatsu to wa Nani ka!? Seimei no Bakuhatsu-Tekina Shinka no Nazo ni Semaru!

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ISBN: 9784065176979 Paperback Nov 2019 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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Language: Japanese

This book will help elementary school students to think about the mysteries of the evolution of life. How were remarkable species such as Anomalocaris, Hallucigenia, and Opabinia born?

More than 500 million years ago, a host of mysterious creatures appeared in large numbers. When it was first discovered, it was thought to be an extinct group of organisms unrelated to current organisms, but it turns out to be among their distant ancestors. How were they born? How were their appearances reconstructed from fossils? This introductory book on palaeontology that explains the latest research results in an easy-to-understand manner.

Summary in Japanese:
小学生が興味を持って生命進化の謎について考えることができる画期的な一冊! 大人気の古生物アノマロカリスやハルキゲニア、オパビニアはどのようにして誕生したのか!? 豊富なイラストとともにわかりやすく、最新研究を解説しています。日能研作成の「考えるコラム」つき!

5億年以上前に、とつぜん、ふしぎな姿をした生物が大量にあらわれた。発見された当初は、現在の生物とは無関係の絶滅した生物群だと考えられていたが、じつは現在の生物の遠い祖先のなかまだった! アノマロカリスをはじめとした、ふしぎな姿をした生物はどのようにして誕生したのか? 化石から、どのようにして彼らの姿が再現されたのか? 最新の研究成果をわかりやすく解説した、古生物の入門書!