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<p><p>in This Beautifully Illustrated Natural History That Links Extinct Larger Feline Species With Those Still In Existence, Collaborators Alan Turner And Mauricio Antón Weave Together The Evidence Of Modern Feline Behavior With That Of The Fossil Record.</p></p> <h3>dawn A. Adams</h3> <p>as Alan Turner Notes, Relatively Little Has Been Written For The Non-specialist About The Evolution Of The Cats. He And Artist Mauricio Ant&#243;n Therefore Set Out To Provide &#145;an Authoritative And Yet Popular And Accessible Account Of The Evolution Of The Larger Cats By Bringing Together The Evidence Of Modern Behavior And The Fossil Record.&#180; Their Book Does Exactly That. Ant&#243;n&#180;s Illustrations, Refreshingly &#145;based Directly On The Skeletal Evidence Available And . . . Not Merely Slightly Altered Versions Of Living Cats With The Addition Of Large Fangs, &#180; Are Perhaps The Finest Ever Published. They Are Intertwined With Turner&#180;s Cogent Text In An Eloquent Demonstration Of The Interplay Between Art And Science, Paleontology And Zoology, Predator And Prey, Ecology And Behavior, And Anatomy And Geography.</p>

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Author

text by Alan Turner; illustrations by Mauricio Antón

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231102285

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Mathematics, Science

Rating

4.48 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14