Palaeontology category: 374 books
The People's Peking Man
Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals...
Summary of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
by Lisa Randall | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Summary of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall | Includes Analysis Preview: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall proposes to explain the causes of the meteoroid that wiped out the dinosaurs using a dark matter model. It also describes a wide range of scientific findings...
Show Me the Bone
Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded...
Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour
Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
From Aardonyx to Zuniceratops—A Dino-Mite Gathering of All the Dinosaurs (More Than 300!) Worth Knowing About
We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery—the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between...
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1990
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review
High in the Canadian...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
This edition does not include illustrations. ‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public façade...
by Giancarlo Varnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The Palaeozoic or Primary Era spans a period of time ranging from 542 million to 251 million years ago. The name Paleozoic, derives from the fact that, in the past, it was considered the first geological age. The Paleozoic covers a range of about 300 million years, giving rise to many forms of life, until the appearance of thecodonts, commonly believed to be the ancestors of dinosaurs.
Trilobite
Eyewitness to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred...
by Kenneth Lacovara
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.
By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological...
Darwin's Lost World
The hidden history of animal life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists...
Time Traveler
In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
Hunting for fossils with a preeminent guide and teacher
Michael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is...
Weird Dinosaurs
The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs...