Palaeontology

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

​Warum gibt es keine Mammuts mehr?

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.

Living material contains about twenty different sorts of atom combined into a set of relatively simple molecules.

Top researchers in the field introduce interdisciplinary perspectives on senescence, presenting new insights and cutting-edge research.

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

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

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

This authored dictionary presents a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts, with focus on the most significant orders, genera, and species in terms of historical turning points such as mass extinctions.

"e;Peking Man,"e; a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena.

Nicht nur Bienen gilt es zu retten, auch den zauberhaftesten aller Vögel: den Kolibri.

Originally published in 1995, Creation-Evolution Debates is the second volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

The Cenozoic history of South America faunas mainly rests on the evidence yielded by the study of fossil mammals.

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.

In view of the wide range of disciplines involved in Quaternary research, this book offers a one-stop resource for the Quaternary research community, since it reviews the latest techniques and provides an approach to how mollusk shell remains are used in the reconstruction of marine environments in southern South America.

Highly recommended by CHOICE, Oct 2018Extremophiles are nature's ultimate survivors, thriving in environments ranging from the frozen Antarctic to abyssal hot hydrothermal vents.

From the biggest teeth to the longest claws, SuperDinosaur uses jaw-dropping new lifelike images to bring you face-to-face with the most fearsome creatures that ever stalked the Earth.

Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon to influencing the evolution of life on Earth.

British Bats is a comprehensive account of the natural history of these fascinating animals, from their origins and evolution to their feeding habits and reproduction.

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

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America?

From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils-and sometimes oil-in every corner of the globe.

Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs.

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.

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

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.

Seit einigen Jahren alarmieren Meldungen über das Verschwinden der Honigbiene.

This book recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Professor Ashok Sahni to the field of paleontology.

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

Qui est l’ancêtre direct du genre humain ?

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

An authoritative account of human evolution, explaining the nature of the evidence and providing a new interpretation.

Highlights the advantages of using the tripartite model within a Bayesian framework for estimation of time calibrated phylogenetic trees.

A valuable guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions for ancestry estimation and biodistance analysis.

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.

Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals.

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.

Voici l'histoire des jours anciens, notre histoire, celle de la «lente émergence de l'hominidé, de la difficile percée de sa conscience, du lourd redressement de son corps et de l'instabilité émouvante de sa bipédie, de la maladresse de ses premiers essais de taille de la pierre et de sa touchante ténacité à les améliorer».

Agglutinated foraminifera are among the most widely distributed and abundant groups of marine meiofauna in some environments (e.

Latest developments in understanding how, when and where the extraordinary body plan and ecology of snakes evolved from lizard ancestors.

Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon.

This second, completely revised edition of "e;Paleogene fossil birds"e; gives a comprehensive, updated overview of the avian fossil record from a geological period that lasted from the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event (66 million years ago) to the end of the Oligocene epoch (23 mya).

Ask anybody what superpower they wished to possess and odds are the answer just might be "e;the ability to fly.

This proceedings volume presents selected research highlights from the Sixth Argentine Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies Congress, hosted at CADIC, Ushuaia, on April 8-12, 2015 by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies (AACYG).

This book describes Hungarian karst areas and Hungarian karst research results.

Receptaculitids are extinct high-level fossils that provide a window into the history of life.

Taxonomists specializing in different groups once based phylogenetic analysis only on morphological data; molecular data was used more rarely.

Science is supposedly ultimately constrained by the nature of the physical world, meaning that changes in scientific methods and practice are supposed to be away from those with less utility and toward those that are more revealing, useful, and productive of insights into the nature of that world.