One iguana two iguanas : a story of accident, natural selection, and evolution / Sneed B. Collard III.
Material type:
TextSeries: How nature worksPublisher: Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 39 pages : color illustrations, map ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780884486497
- 0884486494
- 1 iguana 2 iguanas
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 591.38 C697 | Available | 33111009366002 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Natural selection and speciation are all but ignored in children's nonfiction. To help address this glaring deficiency, award-winning children's science writer Sneed Collard traveled to the Galapagos Islands to see for himself, where Charles Darwin saw, how new species form. The result is this fascinating story of two species of iguana, one land-based and one marine, both of which developed from a single ancestor that reached the islands millions of years ago. The animals evolved in different directions while living within sight of one another. How is that possible? Collard uses the iguanas to explore Charles Darwin's great discovery.
Includes bibliographical references.
Most iguanas in the Galápagos Islands live and eat on land, but one species does something no other iguana does anywhere in the world -- it launches itself into the sea and dives underwater to feed. Descended from a common ancestor and living within sight of one another, the author offers a theory how did land and marine iguanas develop such different appearances and lifestyles.