Créditos
Front cover and title page: Hurricane Andrew over the Gulf of Mexico, August 1992, NOAA.
Back cover: Map of the world by Isidore of Seville [A.D. 560-636], redrawn and published in 1898 in Mappaemundi: Die altesten Weltkarten, a six-volume work compiled by Konrad Miller. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
página iv: Entrance to National Academy of Sciences building, Carol M. Highsmith, photographer.
página v: Marble seal of the National Academy of Sciences, David Patterson, photographer.
página vi: © Marty Stouffer, 1991/PNI.
página x: Young stars, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA.
página 3: background: © Ken Graham/PNI; insets: photograph of Edwin Hubble: National Academy of Sciences; Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA.
página 4: Young stellar disks in infrared, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA.
página 6: left: DNA, Dr. A. Lesk, Laboratory of Molecular Biology/Science Photo Library; right: RNA, © Ken Eward/Science Source, Photo Researchers, Inc.
página 9: Charles Darwin, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
página 9: Galápagos Islands, © Archive Photos, 1994/PNI
página 11: Darwin's finches. Drawing by K. Thalia Grant. From The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. © 1994 by Jonathan Weiner. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
página 12: Paria River, Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, © Tom Till.
páginas 12-13: Illustration of layers of sedimentary rock, Joyce Pendola, courtesy Natural History.
página 14: Illustration by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View by Lewin, © Scientific American Library. Used with permission by W.H. Freeman and Company.
página 16: top, © Ron Sanford, 1994/PNI; bottom left, © Marty Stouffer, 1991/PNI; bottom right, © Erwin Bauer, Peggy Bauer, 1990/PNI.
página 18: Myoglobin, © Irving Geis.
página 19: Cytochrome c. Illustration by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Vol. I, 37, 1971.
páginas 20-21: Drawings of Mammalian land ancestor, Balaenoptera, by N. Haver. Drawings of Ambulocetus, Rodhocetus, by N. Haver, © Sinauer Associates.
página 22: Illustration adapted from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press.
página 24: Drawings by Darwen Hennings, © Wadsworth Publishing Company.
página 36: Detail, Paria River, Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, © Tom Till.
Agradecimentos
The National Academy of Sciences gratefully acknowledges contributions from:
The Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.
The Council of the National Academy of Sciences
The 1997 and 1998 Annual Funds of the National Academy of Sciences, whose donors include Academy members and other science-interested individuals.