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ISBN10: 0231065833
ISBN13: 9780231065832
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Nov 12 1996
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.49 Width: 8.49 Depth: 10.45
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780231065832
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Nov 12 1996
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.49 Width: 8.49 Depth: 10.45
Language: English
In this illustrated work, Kurten offers a vivid panorama of vertebrate animal life as it unfolded during the more than three million years before humans came to the New World.
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