Palaeontology

Presenta los resultados de cuatro proyectos realizados entre 1995 y 2010.

Hans Dominiks Flug in den Weltraum ist ein bahnbrechender Dystopie-Klassiker, der in einer fiktiven Zukunft spielt, in der die Menschheit den Weltraum erobert hat.

Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne are back with a new title in the Best in Show series.

¿Sabes en qué consiste el trabajo de un paleontólogo?

Affenähnlich und kognitiv nicht fähiger als Vieh – so beurteilte die Fachwelt die ersten bekannten Knochen eines Neandertalers, die 1856 bei Düsseldorf aus einem Steinbruch purzelten.

Find out ALL ABOUT dinosaurs in this fun-filled fact book for kids aged 7+.

Obwohl Menschen auf keinen Fall zu den gefährdeten Tierarten auf diesem Planeten gehören, treibt Menschen offensichtlich die Sorge und die Befürchtung um, dass die Menschheit nicht überleben und damit die Tierart Homo sapiens für immer ausgelöscht werden könnte.

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.

Secrets of the Manatee offers a fascinating look at Florida's most mysterious marine creature.

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.

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.

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period.

Secrets of the Manatee offers a fascinating look at Florida's most mysterious marine creature.

An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to todayHumans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creatures.

Eine (Zeit-)Reise in die Welt der UrzeitriesenDinosaurier.

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago.

Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctionsTwo 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.

Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping Sparrowhawk to the breathtaking White-tailed Eagle.

The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birdsthey belonged to the pterosaurs.

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs.

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

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.

Las claves científicas del fascinante mundo de la Paleontología de los dinosaurios.

Für den Blick nach vorn hilft meist ein gründlicher Blick zurück: Wie sah das Klima vergangener Zeiten aus, überliefert in Eisbohrkernen oder Korallen?

»Die ultimative Dinosaurier Biographie« SCIENTIFIC AMERICANNoch immer haftet den Dinosauriern das Image der schwerfälligen, primitiven Monster an, die zu groß waren, um zu überleben.

Does Genesis teach that the human race was created by God or engineered by ET's?

How do we distinguish between our ancestors'' ideas of God and close encounters of an extra-terrestrial kind?

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

Only recently was it determined that two of the world's most devastating plagues, the plague of Justinian and the medieval Black Death, were caused by distinct strains of the same pathogen.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

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

Only recently was it determined that two of the world's most devastating plagues, the plague of Justinian and the medieval Black Death, were caused by distinct strains of the same pathogen.

'Beautifully written .

The Times Science Book of the Year.

What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future?

A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.

A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.

This new text sets out to establish the key role played by systematics in deciphering patterns of evolution from the fossil record.

As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence.

Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level.

Life on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years.

Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems.

The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion.

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms.

Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed?

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.

This is a new and completely rewritten edition of the well-known text Microfossils (first published in 1980) covering all the major microfossil groups, with information on taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeoecology.

Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctionsTwo 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.

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms.