Palaeontology category: 374 books
Evolutionary Protistology
The Organism as Cell Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Origin of Life and the First Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, Barcelona, June 25–28, 1973 Volume II: Contributed Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Origin of Life and the First Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL), Barcelona, June 25-28, 1973. Vol. II: Contributed Papers
Embryos in Deep Time
The Rock Record of Biological Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of different...
Dinosaur Tracks
The Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as experimental...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the Foreword:
"Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled...
Plants Invade the Land
Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotany with physical, chemical, and geological data.
Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia
Human Evolution and its Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known....
Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form
An Analytical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Phylogenetic analysis and morphometrics have been developed by biologists into rigorous analytic tools for testing hypotheses about the relationships between groups of species. This book applies these tools to paleontological data.
The fossil record is our one true chronicle of the history...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus...
by Michel Laurin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
More than three hundred million years ago—a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared—vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod...
Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs
Origins, Evolution, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them breathtakingly complete, have been found in nearly all parts of the globe at a rapid pace. Coupled with the application of new scientific approaches and techniques,...
Ice Age Forensics
Reconstructing the Death of a Wooly Bison
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Frozen mammals of the Ice Age, preserved for millennia in the tundra, have been a source of fascination and mystery since their first discovery over two centuries ago. The 1979 find of a frozen, extinct steppe bison in an Alaskan gold mine allowed paleontologist Dale Guthrie to undertake the first scientific...
The Adapted Mind
Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1995
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact...