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The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years
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The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years Hardcover - 2014

by J. G. Thewissen


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  • Title The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years
  • Author J. G. Thewissen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2014-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520277069 / 0520277066
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.73 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Paleontology - Pakistan, Whales - Evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014003531
  • Dewey Decimal Code 569.5

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J. G. M. "Hans" Thewissen is Ingalls-Brown Endowed Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Northeast Ohio Medical University. His main research interest is the study of whales, particularly their adaptations to life in water and their origin as land mammals. He discovered in 1994 the skeleton of the first-known whale that could walk on land (Ambulocetus), and he has led more than ten field expeditions each to Pakistan and India, collecting fossil whales. He is coeditor of Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2002), Emergence of Whales (1998), and Sensory Evolution on the Threshold (UC Press, 2008).
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