Palaeontology category: 374 books
Amphibian Evolution
The Life of Early Land Vertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies...
by Dexin Jiang, Eleanora I. Robbins, Yongdong Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book addresses the principles and methods for determining petroleum source rocks based on fossil spores and pollen. Studying petroliferous basins in China, we discovered that there are often as many as three different sources of the microfossils: the source rocks, the rocks along the pathway,...
Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from Co. Waterford, SE Ireland
Palaeobiogeography of the Leinster Terrane
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Fossils and Strata is an international series of monographs and memoirs in palaeontology and biostratigraphy, owned by, and published on behalf of, The Lethaia Foundation in cooperation between the Scandinavian countries.
Fossils and Strata forms part of the same structured publishing programme...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Fossils and Strata is an international series of monographs and memoirs in palaeontology and biostratigraphy, owned by, and published on behalf of, The Lethaia Foundation in cooperation between the Scandinavian countries.
Fossils and Strata forms part of the same structured publishing programme...
The Fossil Hunter
Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
A book about extinct animals can possibly help spark a child's imagination by presenting the child with descriptions of animals that encourage visualization. The extinct animals that are described are no longer around for a child to look at in person at a zoo, and, in some cases, there are no pictures...
The Oldest Enigma of Humanity
The Key to the Mystery of the Paleolithic Cave Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A mystery spanning thousands of years—and a compelling study of early mankind and the first sparks of human artistic creativity.
Thirty thousand years ago, our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible?...
Life
A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils.
With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard...
Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic...
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life...
Before the Dawn
Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Nicholas Wades articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanitys origins as never before-a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings...
Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”*–*From Lucy’s Legacy
In his New...
Rereading the Fossil Record
The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but...
by Ann Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the...