![]() ![]() This long history gave canids an early head start in diversifying before other carnivoran groups had an opportunity to compete. XW: Canids were among the first carnivorans to evolve, dating back to more than 40 million years ago. Q: Why are the fossil records for canids so rich and abundant? Such fantastic records, assembled over more than 100 years of careful collecting by vertebrate paleontologists, permit us to piece together a detailed evolutionary history of the family and enable us to ask many questions that cannot be easily answered by studying other groups of carnivorans. ![]() The richness and diversity of the fossil canids are unparalleled among modern families of Carnivora (mammalian predators). ![]() Xiaoming Wang: The fossil records of the canids (dogs) present a unique opportunity to study this important family of predators. Wang is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has been studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae for the past 20 years. ![]() The following is an interview with Xiaoming Wang, author of Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. ![]()
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![]() With a new foreword by Lewis's stepson, Douglas Gresham, this illustrated gift edition evokes the historic time and place of the book's creation. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 19, originally published as three separate volumes: Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). This twentieth century masterpiece provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith. Mere Christianity is a Christian apologetical book by the British author C. Lewis proves that at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice, rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations. 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Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. ![]() ![]() “The people on the island of Jeju, and in Korea in general, really went through just a lot,” See says. Since the pandemic, however, the novel’s newer fans have focused more on the psychological resilience, courage and persistence that the women needed to survive in a tumultuous era that includes 1930s Japanese occupation, World War II, and violent repression by South Korea’s regime in the late 1940s and early 1950s. 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