Evolution Collection (page 98)

Microraptor dinosaur, artwork
Microraptor dinosaur. Computer artwork of a microraptor dino-bird on a fern around 120 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period, in what is now Liaoning, China

Cretaceous tree ferns, artwork
Cretaceous tree ferns. Artwork showing several Tempskya tree ferns, depicted in the Lower to Mid-Cretaceous Period. These plants could reach six metres in height and half a metre in diameter

Prehistoric wetland life, artwork
Prehistoric wetland life. Computer artwork of an Ichthyostega (right) emerging from a prehistoric floodplain around 350 million years ago during the Late Devonian period

Desert-adapted elephants, adult and calves. These are African elephants (Loxodonta africana) adapted to living in desert areas of Namibia and Angola

Trilobite on a seabed, artwork
Trilobite on a seabed. Computer artwork of a Olenoides serratus trilobite crawling among prehistoric Vauxia sp. (branching) and Wapkia sp

Desert-adapted elephant using its trunk to throw dust over itself. Dust baths help to ward off insects. This is an African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

De-evolving, conceptual image

Paul Broca, French anatomist
Paul Broca (1824-1880), French anatomist. This bronze statue was inaugurated on 26 July 1887, on the Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris, France

Seychelles giant millipede (Seychelleptus seychellarum). Photographed on Cousin Island, in the Seychelles, a group of islands north of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean

Neanderthal cave, artwork
Neanderthal cave. Computer artwork of a group of Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalensis) in a cave

Climbing perch. These fish, from the genus Anabas, are found in southern Asia, including India, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines. The specimens shown here are from India

Human and ape anatomy. Artwork comparing the anatomy of a human (left) and an ape (right). Both are primates, but as humans

Trac trac chat (Cercomela tractrac). Photographed in the dunes of the Namib Desert, this is an example of the pale form of this bird

Diabloceratops dinosaur, artwork
Diabloceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a one tonne, 20 foot (6 metres) long Diabloceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Gecko foot showing adhesive lamellae
Tokay gecko (Gecko gecko) feet on glass showing the arrangement of lamellae. Gecko feet use very small subdivided filaments on the lamellae to bond with their substrates at the molecular level using

Prehistoric trees, artwork
Prehistoric trees. Computer artwork of conifers growing 300 million years ago during the Late Carboniferous period (354-290 million years ago), in what is now south-eastern Illinois, USA

1909 Cartoon Darwin with Apes detail
1909 Illustration of Charles Darwin in tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right) by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in the periodical " Simplicissimus" 15th February

1650 Bishop Usher Portrait tinted 4004BC
1650 Archbishop James Usher (Usser or Ussher). Theologian. 1670 copperplate engraved portrait printed in London for Nathan Ranew and Jonathon Robinson at the Kings Arms in St

Machina ammonita by Paul D. Stewart
Inspired by William Paleys inference of a creator from the mechanisms of nature, and a bad pun from Descartes view of non-human organisms as machina anima

1812 Egyptian Ibis & Cuviers evolution 1812 Egyptian Ibis & Cuviers evolution
Composite of three plates (by Balzac) from Cuviers " Ossamens Fossiles" 1812. Left - a mummy skeleton from Thebes, middle - the modern sacred ibis

Gecko feet diversity
Photomontage of living gecko feet showing a variety of forms. Gecko feet employ very small subdivided filaments to bond with their substrates at the molecular level using Van Der Waals forces

1761 Buffon Naturalist Zoologist Portrait
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. French naturalist (7 September 1707 - 16th April 1788). Steel engraving 1833 by Robert Hart with later colouring, from the painting by F.H. Drouais 1761

Prehistoric watering hole, artwork
Prehistoric watering hole. Computer artwork of three Ouranosaurus dinosaurs drinking at a watering hole during the early Cretaceous period (about 110 million years ago) in what is now Africa

Prehistoric pond, artwork
Prehistoric pond. Computer artwork of life in and around a freshwater pond during the Upper Devonian period (around 360 million years ago). In the foreground are two Ichthyostega tetrapods

Galapagos bird specimens Darwin Research
Two Galapagos Mockingbirds (right, upper from Espanola lower from San Cristobal), three Galapagos finch species (upper left) and Yellow Warbler (gold, lower left)

Triceratops dinosaur, artwork
Triceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a ten tonne Triceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Peacock Pavo cristatus displaying tail
Male peacock, Pavo cristatus, displaying his ocellated tail feathers. The peacocks tail, cumbersome and expensive to produce, required an explanation under Darwins theory of natural selection

1877 John Tyndall Irish born physicist
Woodburytype photograph by Lock & Whitfield from " Men of Mark" 1877. John Tyndall (2nd August 1820 - 4 December 1893) was a well known Irish-born physicist who worked on diamagnetism

Preserved Galapagos Mockingbird
A Galapagos Mockingbird, from the collection of the Charles Darwin Research Station on Galapagos. While actually on the Beagle voyage, it was the mockinbirds

Pentaceratops dinosaur, artwork
Pentaceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a six tonne, 27 foot (8.2 metres) long Pentaceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Torosaurus dinosaur, artwork
Torosaurus dinosaur. Computer artwork of a Torosaurus wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Four British Paleolithic handaxes
Four pointed British paleolithic (Mode 2 acheulian) handaxes. These were made from flint (silex) by Homo Heidelbergensis between approximately 400, 000 and 100, 000 years ago

Prehistoric dragonfly, artwork
Prehistoric dragonfly. Computer artwork of giant Meganeura resting on a plant in a fern forest, at sunrise during the Carboniferous period (354-290 million years ago)

1880 George Rolleston zoologist cartoon
George Rolleston, physician and zoologist (1829-1881). Large cartoon watercolour ink wash drawing signed RPP 1881. Original in collection of Paul D. Stewart

1838 Jenny Orangutan which Darwin visited
January 1838, Jenny the first Orangutan in London zoo. Full publication details in image. On 28 March 1838, Charles Darwin came to the London Zoo to visit Jenny

Collection of Darwins Finches galapagos
A group of Darwins finches, Geospizinae, from the collection of the Charles Darwin Research Station on Galapagos, showing a range of beak sizes and shapes

1650 Bishop Usher Portrait 4004BC
1650 Archbishop James Usher (Usser or Ussher). Theologian. 1670 copperplate engraved portrait printed in London for Nathan Ranew and Jonathon Robinson at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard

1820 Jean Baptiste Lamarck old and blind
Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) portrait when old and blind. A later hand coloured frontis engraving by Lizars from his Cabinet Cyclopaedia series

Mummified Ibis & Cuviers evolution Mummified Ibis & Cuviers evolution
Mummified Ibis Head from Egypt (Ptolemaic period 305-30 B.C.) together with English translations of Cuviers " Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe"

1830 Baron Georges Cuvier palaeontologist
George Cuvier, naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist (23 August 1769 - 13 May 1832). Portrait engraving by James Thompson

Albertaceratops dinosaur, artwork
Albertaceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a 20 foot (6 metres) long Albertaceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Charles Lyell portrait engraving Stoddart
Frontispiece Volume II of the " Life Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, BART" John Murray publishers 1881. Engraving by Stoddart from a photograph

Zuniceratops dinosaur, artwork
Zuniceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a 113Kg, 10 foot (3 metres) long Zuniceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Tyrannosaurus dinosaur, artwork
Tyrannosaurus dinosaur. Computer artwork of a seven tonne Tyrannosaurus wandering in a forest around 68 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, in what is now the Western United States

1849 The antidiluvian world crop Jurassic
A rare British informational broadsheet with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

Darwins Galapagos Finches
Illustration from page 379, " Journal of Researches" 2nd Edition 1845 Charles Darwin. The contrasting beaks of four Galapagos finches

1863 Huxley Mans Place in Nature desktop
Desktop including human skull in a glass dome and a first edition of Huxleys 1863 " Evidence as to Mans Place in Nature"

1863 Huxley Mans Place in Nature skulls
Desktop including two contrasting human skulls, a chimpanzee skull, and a first edition of Huxleys 1863 " Evidence as to Mans Place in Nature"

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