Palaeontology category: 374 books
50+ Easy to Make Paleo Recipes for Healthy Weight Management
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
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by Chef Paolo Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Everything you’ve learned about the food you’re supposed to eat has been wrong. You must follow the Paleo diet to lead a healthier, natural, and vibrant life, free of disease and obesity.
The Paleo diet follows the ways in which our ancient ancestors lived. It looks to natural foods, like...
by Jeff Meldrum
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this landmark work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials, an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism. Meldrum reports...
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going...
The Walking Whales
From Land to Water in Eight Million Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled...
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils
Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within...
Fossil Men
The Quest for the Oldest Fossil Skeleton and the Battle to Define Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2020
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The Great Basin
A Natural Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental...
Frozen Earth
The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation—nearly three billion years ago—to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic...
by William Nothdurft, Josh Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer...
The Invaders
How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals—a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.
Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals
Volume I:History, Geology, and Magnetostratigraphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia. Everything we know about Asian mammals of the last 6 million years has a historical basis in the documentation of the geology of Yushe. ...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance.
New archaeological finds and experimental...
by Roland Maes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
A Big Bang, i.e. a gigantic silent explosion occurred 13.5 billion years ago, with an unsustainable intensity of light and heat thrown in all directions. Light traveled during billions of years and cooled down, with the result that the Universe was getting cold, really cold. However, without cold,...