Credits
Cover, title page, pages x and 1. Earth view from space, NASA.
Cover, title page, and page 35: Grand Canyon, Photodisk.
Cover, title page, and page vi: Fossil fish, Photodisk.
Cover, title page, and page 3: Coral reef, Stephen Fink/Corbis.
Cover and title page: Leonardo da Vinci.
Cover and page 55: Nautilus fossil, NAP Image Archives.
page iv: Entrance to National Academy of Sciences Building, Carol M. Highsmith, photographer.
page v: Marble seal of the National Academy of Sciences, David Patterson, photographer.
page 2: Rain forest, Stephen Dalton, photographer, © Oxford Scientific Films.
page 3: Insert, left: Bass, Dallas Aquarium, © The National Audubon Society Collection.
page 3: Insert, right: Fossil fish (Priscacara oxyprion), © E. R. Degginger.
page 4: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from Essential Cell Biology, Garland Publishing, Inc.
page 6: Balcones Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, © 1997 by Phyllis Janik.
page 8: Archaeopteryx cast, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, James Amos/Corbis.
page 10: Galapagos Islands view from space, NASA.
pages 11 and 19: Galapagos finch, Galen Rowell/Corbis.
pages 12 and 27: Young stars, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA.
page 13: Charles Darwin, Corbis-Bettmann.
page 13: Alfred Russel Wallace, Library of Congress.
page 13: Gregor Mendel, Corbis-Bettmann.
page 15: Ant in amber, David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York.
page 17: Lacewing graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 17: Lacewing photograph, Catherine and Maurice Tauber, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
page 18: Whale ancestors, drawings by N. Haver, © Sinauer Associates, Inc.
page 20: Skulls, drawings by Darwen Hennings, © Wadsworth Publishing Company.
page 21: Wasp and caterpillar, James H. Tumlinson, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
page 23: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 26: Armillary sphere, Library of Congress.
page 28: Nicolaus Copernicus, Corbis-Bettmann.
page 28: Johannes Kepler, Library of Congress.
page 28: Galileo Galilei, Library of Congress/Corbis.
page 28: Isaac Newton, Library of Congress.
page 28:18th century view of the universe, Corbis-Bettmann.
page 30: Tropical forest with crane, Smithsonian Institution.
page 31: Leafnosed bat, Joe McDonald/Corbis.
page 32: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 33: Sedimentary rocks, David McConnell, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
page 34: Fossil record, graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, derived from an illustration developed by Ken Miller, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
page 36: Armadillo, Joe McDonald/Corbis.
page 36: Fossil, courtesy of Raymond T. Rye, Smithsonian Institution.
page 36: Stromatolites, courtesy of Embassy of Australia.
page 36-37: Timeline graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from The Book of Life, W.W. Norton, New York, New York.
page 38: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from Essential Cell Biology, Garland Publishing, Inc.
page 39: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from From So Simple a Beginning, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, New York.
page 41: Plate tectonics, graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from Astronomy Today, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
page 44: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 46: Student at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, Robert Allen Strawn, photographer.
page 49: Students at Piney Branch Elementary School, Takoma Park, Maryland, Robert Allen Strawn, photographer.
page 51: Students at Eastern Middle School, Silver Spring, Maryland, Robert Allen Strawn, photographer.
page 54: Trilobite, David McGrath, photographer, © Photo Archives, Denver Museum of Natural History.
page 60: Students and teacher, Milton Hershey School, Hershey, PA, © Blair Seitz.
page 61: Student at Piney Branch Elementary School, Takoma Park, Maryland, Robert Allen Strawn, photographer.
page 64: Draft Growth-of-Understanding Map. Benchmark for Science Literacy, AAAS.
page 71: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 72: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 73: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 83: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 84: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 89: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 102: Graphic by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration.
page 104: Books, © TSM/Tom Stewart 1995.
page 105: Keyboard, NAP Image Archives.