Palaeontology

Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology.

Provides an overview of the research on student-centered pedagogy in paleontology courses and gives examples of instructional approaches.

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This expanded, fully updated second edition of the leading textbook in pedology and soil geomorphology is invaluable for anyone studying soils, landforms and landscape change.

This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Ediacaran and the Paleozoic.

This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time.

This symposium, held in Argentina in March 2003, commemorates Otto Nordenskjold's 1901 expedition, and pays tribute to the Swedish and Argentinian explorers who took on the challenge of early fieldwork in Patagonia and Antarctica.

Originally published in 1995, Creation and Evolution in the Early American Scientific Affiliation is the tenth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

This is the first study to present simultaneously both deconvolution and inversion, two powerful tools of data analysis.

This volume comprises selected papers of the international symposium held in Sio Paulo, 1986.

A researcher and graduate student reference on benthic foraminifera and climate in Earth and Environmental Sciences, first published in 2006.

This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.

The long-awaited fourth edition of a classic text, now fully revised and updated for the molecular era.

A comprehensive compilation of important mammalian groups of the Santa Cruz Formation fossils, for academic researchers and graduate students.

This Element provides an introduction to the application of thallium isotopes, case studies, and future directions.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Fruktifikationen" verfügbar.

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

Caught on camera prior to their demise, this book reveals the surprisingly rich photographic record of now-extinct animals.

Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises.

Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells.

This book documents timely and systematically marvelous fossils (plants and sporopollen) related to the biggest mass extinction of the Permian-Triassic transition.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Voici un livre qui retrace la formidable histoire de l’humanité depuis 4 millions d’années.

The analysis of vegetation history is one of the prime objectives for vegetation scientists.

A one-stop practical guide to foraminifera with numerous case studies demonstrating their applications, for graduate students, micropalaeontologists and industry professionals.

With less than twenty species worldwide and only four British and Irish species, the grouse is surprisingly well-known.

Three major aspects that distinguish this book are that (1) it contains the most detailed analysis of the sexual reproduction (oogenesis, fertilization and embryonic incubation) in a particular phylum of the aquatic invertebrates (Bryozoa) ever made; this analysis is based on an exhaustive review of the literature on that topic published over the last 260 years, as well as extensive original histological, anatomical and morphological data obtained during studies of both extant and extinct species; (2) this broad analysis has made it possible to reconstruct the major patterns, stages and trends in the evolution of sexual reproduction in various bryozoan clades, showing numerous examples of parallelisms during transitions from broadcasting to embryonic incubation, from planktotrophic to non-feeding larvae and from lecithotrophy to placentation; corresponding shifts in oogenesis, fertilization and embryonic development are discussed in detail; and (3) the key evolutionary novelties acquired by Bryozoa are compared with similar innovations that have evolved in other groups of marine invertebrates, showing the general trends in the evolution of their sexual reproduction.

This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.

Climate for the 21st century is expected to be considerably different from the present and recent past.

Proceedings of a conference (see title) held in Zurich, Oct.

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

The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an 'armour' of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms.

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.

Argues that knowledge of something''s history makes a difference to how we engage with it aesthetically.

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.

« Voici, après Pré-ambules, ou les premiers pas de l’homme, Pré-textes, ou l’homme préhistorique en morceaux.

Time-lapse film from 1983 and recent digital videography of deep-sea crinoids reveals behaviors in taxa never before seen in life.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title At once an elegy and an exhortation.

It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable.

The present volume is the first in a series of two books dedicated to the paleoceanography of the Late Cenozoic ocean.

An overview of evolutionary rates, analyzing data from laboratory, field and fossil record studies to extract their underlying generation-to-generation rates.

Beautifully illustrated complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils.

In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell.

This book provides an overview, research compendium and an introduction to the science of molecular paleontology, including literature overview for non-geochemists.

Seven original case-studies are presented in this volume, each describing the application of micropaleontology and palynology in applied geology: (1) a study of the modern distribution of coccolith sedimentation in the North Sea and its potential for future application in basin analysis; (2) ostracods are shown to be good paleoenvironmental indicators in the early Cretaceous and Tertiary; (3) a biogenic gas seep in the North Sea is shown to be marked by diagnostic benthonic foraminifera; (4) in the North Sea hydrocarbon exploration, integrated studies of micropaleontology have provided invaluable data; (5) palynofacies analysis are shown to be vital in determining depositional events and hydrocarbon source rock potential; (6) the application of paleontology and sedimentology to sequence stratigraphy is demonstrated in the early Cretaceous; and (7) the application of micropaleontology is shown to be an essential tool in both engineering and economic geology.