Palaeontology category: 374 books
Life's Solution
Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligence....
by Steve Simmonds
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The Yellowstone Super-volcano or by its scientific name the Yellowstone Caldera is located in the Yellowstone National Park. The caldera is acutely located in the northwest corner of the park in Wyoming, this is where the vast majority of the park is contained. The size of the Super Volcano measure...
by R.L. Jones, D.H. Keen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the literature on Pleistocene events in the British Isles.
Top 10 Dinosaurs of 2015
An I Know Dino Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The golden age of dinosaur discoveries continues, with 35 named dinosaurs coming out in 2015.
Blending fiction with fact, Top 10 Dinosaurs of 2015 reimagines the way 10 of the newly described Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs lived in their natural habitats.
Featuring:
The platypus...
Eugène Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java
The History of the First ‘Missing Link’ and Its Discoverer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although the name Pithecanthropus is now seldom used, there are few who study the origin of our species who will fail to recognise the historical place of the usage and its association with Eugene Dubois. During the last thirty or forty years, Australopithecus and its African context has tended to...
Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions
Methods, Theories, and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
As the study of Palaeolithic technologies moves towards a more analytical approach, it is necessary to determine a consistent procedural framework. The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Palaeolithic...
The Nature of Culture
Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography...
Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution
A Focus on South Western Gondwana
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian geological record in a poorly-known part of the world,...
The Indian Mesozoic Chronicle
Sequence Stratigraphic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
The book reviews and summarizes the Indian Mesozoic geological evolution in an innovative alternative perspective of sequence stratigraphy. It mainly focuses on the Jurassic interval, but also concisely discusses the preceding Triassic and Cretaceous geological records. The key to the study is primarily...
Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods
A Case Study of Extinct Organisms in Classical Paleontology
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Fossil species appear to persist morphologically unchanged for long intervals of geologic time, punctuated by short bursts of rapid change as explained by the Ecological Evolutionary Units (EEUs). Here, morphological variation in Paleozoic atrypide morphology at the subfamily level (Atrypinae and...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this...
by Gregory Dick
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The first comprehensive synthesis of genomic techniques in earth sciences
The past 15 years have witnessed an explosion of DNA sequencing technologies that provide unprecedented insights into biology. Although this technological revolution has been driven by the biomedical sciences, it also...
Forerunners of Mammals
Radiation • Histology • Biology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth’s ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles,...
by Félix Pérez-Lorente
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The...