Palaeontology

The first introductory palaeontology text which demonstrates the importance of selected fossil groups in geological and biological studies, particularly in understanding evolutionary patterns, palaeoenvironmental analysis, and stratigraphy.

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.

Et si nous nous étions fourvoyés sur ce que fut l’homme de Néandertal ?

Animal evolution has always been at the core of Biology, but even today many fundamental questions remain open.

A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals.

One wants to preserve history.

A uniquely comprehensive examination of the ways in which mammals of diverse size and taxonomy are quantitatively similar and dissimilar.

Der Klimawandel ist einer der Hauptgründe für den prognostizierten weiterenRückgang der weltweiten Biodiversität.

How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils?

Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.

Die Kurze Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie beschreibt die Entwicklung des Wissenschaftsgebietes von der Antike bis heute, die vor allem durch die jüngsten technischen Errungenschaften deutlich beschleunigt wurde.

“A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters―cryptids, as they are called―and the people who pursue them .

This is the first time that a single book has attempted to cover the whole of the fossil history of insects, so comprehensively.

This new edition synthesizes the methods used in microfacies analysis and details the potential of microfacies in evaluating depositional environments and diagenetic history, and, in particular, the application of microfacies data in the study of carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs and the provenance of archaeological materials.

The global illegal wildlife trade is estimated by Interpol to be worth $20 billion annually.

A study of the fate of plants during the ''great extinction'' 65 million years ago.

Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating.

An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins' ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning.

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.

';Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like.

This 2-volume set provides a state-of-the-art study of the fossil record and taxonomy of the main vertebrate groups from Greece.

« J’ai vécu pour l’archéologie.

In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man.

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

 This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them.

This volume provides individual treatments of the major molluscan taxa.

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

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses.

The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).

An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million yearsNew discoveries are transforming our understanding of the theropod dinosaurs, revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome predators.

Taking a new global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective.

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

This volume is the fourth in the series of the Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia on Chemical Evolution.

Morphometrics is one of the most dynamic and popular fields on the contemporary biological scene.

This book offers many examples of calcareous microfossils and describes a new microfaunistic record in Argentina.

The main prospects for expanding the mineral resource base of gold are associated with the discovery of typical ore objects within the distribution of productive black shale strata in the Orenburg part of the Southern Urals.

This book honors the career of Professor Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch who was a pioneer and leader in the field of limnogeology since the 1980s.

Strontium and its isotopes provide solutions to important geologic problems and offer clues about seminal events in Earth history.

Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity.

More than three hundred million years ago-a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared-vertebrate animals first ventured onto land.

A comprehensive study of the concepts and application of trace fossils through geologic time for paleontologists, sedimentologists and petroleum geoscientists.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Geweihe und Gehörne" verfügbar.

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecological descriptions of chironomid subfossils found in Central American lake sediments.

Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record.

This volume discusses the aspects of a phylogenetic analysis that go beyond basic calculation of most parsimonious trees.