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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax 9780231197298
RRP: $19.29$15.65Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures-how they reproduce and raise their young, how... -
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near... -
Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory by Mark P. Witton
RRP: $28.37$26.05What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged?Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals by Donald R. Prothero 9780691156828
RRP: $38.70$31.33After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles by Gregory S. Paul
RRP: $38.70$26.43An authoritative illustrated guide to the mighty reptiles that dominated the seas of the Mesozoic for 185 million yearsNew discoveries are revealing that many ancient oceangoing reptiles were energetic animals capable of inhabiting an array of watery... -
Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: $14.18$9.35'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic - a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON WINCHESTER Richard Fortey is one of Britain's leading popular scientists. Life:... -
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 9780099273455
RRP: $16.76$11.73High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in incredible... -
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy by Mark P. Witton 9780691150611
RRP: $41.28$34.00For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs,... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from... -
Fossils and Evolution by T. S. Kemp
$96.32The book is about the ideas, methodology and scope of contemporary palaeobiology, rather than a comprehensive, detailed survey of the factual basis of the subject. It addresses the issue of how on the one hand evolutionary theory is necessary for... -
Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record by Michael J. Benton
RRP: $68.31$62.44This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of... -
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax
RRP: $25.74$20.94Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures-how they reproduce and raise their young, how... -
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? Chris... -
The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet by Anthony J. Martin 9781681776569
RRP: $37.35$29.80Humans have "gone underground" for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing, the planet would be very... -
Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy
RRP: $27.72$19.65Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets... -
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
RRP: $39.98$34.62The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world,... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition by Gregory S. Paul 9780691167664
RRP: $38.70$32.11The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format... -
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133345
$46.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133345Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
The Elements of Palaeontology by Rhona M. Black 9780521348362
RRP: $85.13$74.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
T. rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez 9780691169668
RRP: $21.92$15.09Sixty-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. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact,... -
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps by Daniel Marty
RRP: $41.28$39.49The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate... -
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $16.76$10.94The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah... -
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling 9780230103429
$16.83At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the... -
Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction by David Norman
RRP: $11.60$8.32Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million... -
Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins by Elisabeth S. Vrba 9780300063486
$128.01This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years-especially the last three million-has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from all over the world-authorities... -
Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 9781472937490
RRP: $36.12$23.09'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the... -
Almost Human by Lee Berger
RRP: $28.37$21.45In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough... -
Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth by Stephen William Hurrell 9780952260370
RRP: $30.96$22.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952260370Author Stephen William HurrellFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint One-off PublishingPublisher One-off PublishingWeight(grams) 485g -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: $19.34$14.13Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: $18.05$11.95"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the... -
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson
RRP: $11.60$8.32Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of all life on it. However, their impact has not been limited to debates about geology and evolution: attempts to explain their existence has shaken religion at... -
The Holocene: An Environmental History Neil Roberts (University of Plymouth) 9781405155212
RRP: $48.96$43.55The 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. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes... -
Dinosaurs--The Grand Tour, Second Edition: Everything Worth Knowing about Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops by Keiron Pim 9781615195190
RRP: $32.19$24.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615195190Author Keiron PimFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 191mm * 25mm -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva
RRP: $25.80$18.95Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from... -
Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher
RRP: $45.15$37.85Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of the Paleozoic Era. Their march through evolutionary... -
Soil Grown Tall: The Epic Saga of Life from Earth by Gregory J. Retallack 9783030887414
RRP: $42.56$32.82This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or... -
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: $38.70$21.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: $21.92$15.40Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly... -
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores
RRP: $30.95$24.01In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years... -
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson
RRP: $16.76$11.73Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they...