Palaeontology category: 374 books
Evolution
What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked...
The Great Fossil Enigma
The Search for the Conodont Animal
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology’s greatest mysteries: “Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed” (Priscum).
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in...
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career—from young scientist in awe of his...
The Worst of Times
How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent,...
by David Norman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today are their...
Secret Chambers
The inside story of cells and complex life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell. Through a series of journeys it emerges that the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life. Decoding this puzzle is...
Bringing Fossils to Life
An Introduction to Paleobiology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology, and population genetics, bridging the gap between...
When the Invasion of Land Failed
The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion almost failed—twice—because of the twin mass extinctions of the Late Devonian Epoch. Some 359 to 375 million years ago, these catastrophic...
Atlas of a Lost World
Travels in Ice Age America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.
In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions...
The Fossil Detectives
Discovering Prehistoric Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's history and evolution. Since the appearance of primitive organisms in Britain more than a billion years ago, oceans, deserts, swamps and vast mountains have come and gone...
Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs
Soft Tissues and Hard Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip Manning...
Dinosaurs
The Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Geared towards a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook, sixth edition, is a concise and lucid presentation of the biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. It clarifies the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the various species while modeling the best approach for...
Dinosaurs: Marvels of God's Design
The Science of the Biblical Account
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book fills a critical need for sound science about dinosaurs from a biblical viewpoint, focusing on the five major dinosaur groups. Dinosaurs are in the news every day, as well as viewed in museums and on science channels. Unfortunately, these portrayals always push an evolutionary agenda. This...
Dragon Bone Hill
An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in...