Palaeontology

This Element summarizes decades of research concerning the homology hypotheses structures of Echinodermata.

This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Light scattering from particles in the nanometric and micrometric size range is relevant in several research fields, such as aerosol science and nanotechnology.

Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology.

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.

A study of the evolution of flowering plants, from their earliest phases in obscurity to their dominance in modern vegetation.

The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past 2.

This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach.

Aeglidae focuses on these unique crustaceans who are endemic to South America.

Evolution is the single unifying principle of biology and core to everything in the life sciences.

Over the last few decades our understanding of what Australia was like during the Mesozoic Era has changed radically.

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe.

A compelling analysis of the species that are most at risk of disappearing from our world - and what it means to us to lose them.

Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19th century.

Demonstrates the use of the Paleobiology Database in undergraduate courses.

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines.

This book serves as an up-to-date introduction, as well as overview to modern trace fossil research and covers nearly all of the essential aspects of modern ichnology.

An ontogenetic series of Deltasuchus motherali helps clarify its niche and resolve a contested part of the crocodyliform family tree.

Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures.

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

Originally published in 1995, The Selected Works of George McCready Price is the seventh volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution.

This volume is a compilation of papers that deal with palaeoecological aspects of Argentina and Uruguay, and that derive from the special session on the Quaternary of South America at the XIIth INQUA International Congress held in Ottawa in 1987.

D’où viennent les premiers hommes ?

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.

Invasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence.

The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago.

On s’émerveille à Carnac, on s’émeut à Stonehenge.

On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island.

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms, usually less than a millimeter in size, and their fossil records extend back in geological time some 500 million years.

Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds.

This beautifully illustrated text book, with state-of-the-art illustrations, is useful not only for an introduction to the subject, but also for the application of marine microfossils in paleoceanographic, paleoenvironmental and biostratigraphic analyses.

As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis.

The Cauvery Basin is one of the most widely known and geologically important basins of India, and it has been for decades, and still is, the focus of study for both national and international researchers.

Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera.

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives.

Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.

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.

Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic variation for population persistence.

Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates.

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week and not only dinosaurs!

This comprehensive work of reference covers the wealth of analytical techniques developed to help understand prehistoric animal remains.

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"e;Near time"e; -an interval that spans the last 100,000 years or so of earth history-qualifies as a remarkable period for many reasons.

This book provides a major synthesis of evidence for past climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa.

An extensive, illustrated study of the ancient fish and marine reptiles who once lived in a tropical lagoon that is now a Swiss mountain.

A philosophical examination of the deep past, and how paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists tell its story.