Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species

Year 2000
Pages 432

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Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species by Jeffrey H. Schwartz is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The available edition details are 2000 • John Wiley & Sons Inc • 432 pages.

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