Evolution in action : natural history through spectacular skeletons / text by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu ; photographs by Patrick Gries.

Évolution. English

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2011.

421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Revised edition.

Previous edition: 2007.

Translated from the French by Linda Asher.

Editor's note / Xavier Barral -- Preface / Jean-Pierre Gasc -- General introduction / Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu -- pt. 1. Architecture -- The art of repetition -- A deep unity -- Bony armor -- Five fingers -- The problems of giants -- Small animals and large -- The false fishes -- The explosion of the five classes -- Animal structures -- pt. 2. The birth of species -- Athene noctua -- All different -- Hybridization -- The three bears -- The seagull ring -- Of mice and men -- The sparrow's beak -- A welcoming nest -- The running ape -- pt. 3. Seduction and selection -- The red queen -- Armaments and ornaments -- The most famous necks -- Competing fangs -- Love before death -- The number of horns -- The gender of bones -- pt. 4. Evolutionary tinkering -- The unicorn's touch -- Teeth of horn -- Paws, wings, and fins -- The last digits -- The two pandas -- The mutants of the deep -- Adults still infants -- pt. 5. The power of environment -- Sky conquerors -- Sea cows -- The triumph of the ruminants -- Lost legs -- Eating ants -- Mirror continents -- Big skulls -- pt. 6. Evolution and time -- A brief moment for the Ibis -- Figures from the past -- A highly evolved puzzle -- Monitored evolution -- Man's time.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-419) and indexes.