Evolution in Action
Natural History through Spectacular Skeletons
Text by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu
Photographs by Patrick Gries
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| ‘Mesmerising … an arresting vision … Darwin, who did so much to kick-start the process, would surely have approved’ | | – The Daily Telegraph |
| 'So beautiful, so dramatic and so evocative of life. The text does a fine job of telling the story of evolution, but it is hard to outshine these images' | | – New Scientist |
‘Beautiful and instructive …
an eloquent and convincing account of the theory of evolution through images alone’ | | – British Journal of Photography |
| ‘… this book tells us why we’re alive’ | | – Monocle |
This is an unprecedented and completely original project.
Spectacular, mysterious, elegant or grotesque, the skeletons of vertebrates provide a fascinating sight. They arrange themselves into forms which seem easy to decipher. Shaped by evolution, they testify to their distant pasts.
Despite the book's rigorous treatment, the aim is accessibility and it relies on many examples of living animals to visualize – and to interpret – the principal mechanisms of evolution.
The approach and nature of its subject-matter, the number and diversity of the species selected and the scope and quality of the photographs are unparalleled.
Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu is a Professor of Natural Sciences and a Doctor of Biological Oceanography. He has published a number of popular scientific works, and has also written and directed numerous documentary films for television.
Patrick Gries is a renowned French photographer. Among his most notable projects is his collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.
Also of interest:
The Complete World of Human Evolution
Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the
Renaissance to Today
The Great Naturalists
Genes, Memes and Human History:
Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution
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