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Nature's Clocks
How Scientists Measure The Age Of Almost Everything
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2009
Paperback, 288 pages
Size: 235x159 mm
ISBN: 9780520261617
ISBN-10: 0520261615
List price: £12.50
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Nature's Clocks
Tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. This book shows how scientists used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.
