Evolution by: Jean-Baptiste de Panafieux / Patrick Gris Publisher: Beijing Fine Arts Photography Publishing House

Introduction
"Evolution" is not a general photography art album. This book is compiled by a biology expert. The rigorous and plain text combined with the skeleton photos tells the evolutionary history of vertebrates. "Evolution" is not a popular science work in the strict sense. The photographer reproduced the skeleton specimens in the museum through black and white photography. From the artistic level, the creative method has expressed the artist's creative intention before the creative content.
The book "Evolution" is divided into six parts, with a total of 44 chapters. It starts with a comparison of the body structures of different animals, and then successively describes the mechanism of biological species formation, the magical power of natural selection (including sexual selection), the process and mechanism of biological structure change, the shaping of biological evolution by the environment, and evolution and time. From it, readers can not only learn a lot of knowledge about modern vertebrates, but also become familiar with some of the most important fossils and events in the history of biological evolution. The author also appropriately discusses the relationship between natural selection and sexual selection, and criticizes the abuse and distortion of Darwin's scientific theory by social Darwinists.
The combination of art and science is not only a retrospection of the tradition of natural history, but also a new direction for the development of scientific communication. As a work that pursues excellence in both content and form, Evolution deserves careful reading by everyone. Bones may mean everything to paleontologists. And the theory of evolution is closely related to each of us. We evolved, we are evolving, and we will continue to evolve. Viewing ourselves from such a magnificent time and space pattern may be the original intention of Evolution...