Palaeontology

If youre keen to get your children or grandchildren interested in the natural world, Love Bees could be just what you need to fire their imaginations.

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.

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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.

This volume focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystems and provides a comprehensive review of current techniques and their application in exemplar studies.

British Fossil reptile sites are of international importance since they include remains that fill the time gaps poorly known elsewhere.

Australopithecus species have been the topic of much debate in palaeoanthropology since Raymond Dart described the first species, Australopithecus africanus, in 1925.

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 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.

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.

This book is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols.

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.

PALEOECOLOGY PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and Future Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life through geological time.

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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.

The relentless exploitation and unsustainable use of wildlife, whether for food, medicine or other uses, is a key concern for conservationists worldwide.

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now.

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together.

The plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a remarkable rodent of the Neotropic given several peculiar aspects of its biology, some of them quite unique among rodents or even among mammals.

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology.

This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the "e;proxy data"e; from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate past climates of the Earth.

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

The health status and future of tropical coral reefs, as tourist destinations, are regularly subjected to media coverage.

Based on modern clinical knowledge Palaeopathology is designed to help bone specialists with diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages.

In the grand sweep of evolution, the origin of radically new kinds of organisms in the fossil record is the result of a relatively simple process: natural selection marching through the ages.

Few studies have addressed the predictions in the stratigraphic paleobiology of continental systems.

Originally published in 1915, The Natural Theology of Evolution looks at the concept of natural theology, examining the argument for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experiences of nature.

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.