Palaeontology

From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them.

"e;THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY,"e;hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades.

Geophysical exploration methods are very expensive and invasive methods for surveys.

« J’ai vécu pour l’archéologie.

This book describes the microbiota of the intertrappean beds in the Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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.

This book comprehensively explores the early evolution of life and the Archean environment.

Fossil biomineralizarion in a geologic framework for advanced students and researchers in paleontology, Earth history, evolution, sedimentology, geochemistry, and materials science.

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 book brings together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology to provide a new perspective on human evolution from the apes'' viewpoint.