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  • Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson

    Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson

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    Fossils 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...
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  • The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte 9781432869106

    The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte 9781432869106

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432869106Author Steve BrusatteFormat PaperbackImprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 28mm
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  • Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution E. N. K. Clarkson (The University of Edinburgh) 9780632052387

    Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution E. N. K. Clarkson (The University of Edinburgh) 9780632052387

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    Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level. This fully revised fourth edition includes a complete update of the sections on evolution and the fossil record, and the evolution...
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  • Age of Pterosaurs by Yang Yang

    Age of Pterosaurs by Yang Yang

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612545295Author Yang YangFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...
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  • The Dinosaur Artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy by Paige Williams 9781911617907

    The Dinosaur Artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy by Paige Williams 9781911617907

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    New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton'. In fact,...
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  • Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530

    Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530

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    Australopithecines, 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...
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  • Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 9781472937490

    Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 9781472937490

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    '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...
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  • Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds by John Pickrell 9780231171786

    Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds by John Pickrell 9780231171786

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    The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence-bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more-has shown a...
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  • First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva

    First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva

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    Humans 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...
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  • Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher

    Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher

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    Trilobites 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...
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  • Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World by Dorrik Stow

    Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World by Dorrik Stow

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    This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian...
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  • The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Peter Dodson 9780691605869

    The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Peter Dodson 9780691605869

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    The horned dinosaurs, a group of rhinoceros-like creatures that lived 100 to 65 million years ago, included one of the greatest and most popular dinosaurs studied today: Triceratops. Noted for his flamboyant appearance--marked by a striking array of...
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  • The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History by Mauricio Anton 9780231102292

    The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History by Mauricio Anton 9780231102292

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    In this beautifully illustrated natural history that links extinct larger feline species with those still in existence, collaborators Alan Turner and Mauricio Anton weave together the evidence of modern feline behavior with that of the fossil record...
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  • The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson

    The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson

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    Just 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...
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  • The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson

    The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson

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    Since 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...
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  • Stegosaurus by Paul M. Barrett 9780565093884

    Stegosaurus by Paul M. Barrett 9780565093884

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    The incredible new dinosaur that dominates the Earth Hall of the Natural History Museum is the most intact Stegosaurus fossilskeleton ever found. Measuring nearly 6 metres long from head to tail, around 90% of the animal - nicknamed Sophie - is...
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  • Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli 9781472983985

    Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli 9781472983985

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    For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story. In Beasts Before Us,...
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  • Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History by Susan M. Gaines 9780195176193

    Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History by Susan M. Gaines 9780195176193

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    In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules in ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll, presumably from plants that had lived millions of years in the past. Many years later this insight was revisited and the term...
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  • Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition by Douglas H. Erwin 9780691165653

    Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition by Douglas H. Erwin 9780691165653

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    Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains...
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  • Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores

    Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores

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    In 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...
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  • The Road to Gondwana: In search of the lost supercontinent Bill Morris 9781922539335

    The Road to Gondwana: In search of the lost supercontinent Bill Morris 9781922539335

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922539335Author Bill MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 272g
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  • Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart by Steve White

    Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart by Steve White

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    A paleoartist is an illustrator who specialises in the science and art of reconstructing ancient animals and their world. In Dinosaur Art, ten of the top contemporary paleoartists reveal a selection of their work and exclusively discuss their working...
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  • Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison 9780062410283

    Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison 9780062410283

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    "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth."...
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  • Neanderthals in Context: A Report of the 1995-1998 Excavations at Gorhams and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar by R. N. E. Barton 9781905905249

    Neanderthals in Context: A Report of the 1995-1998 Excavations at Gorhams and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar by R. N. E. Barton 9781905905249

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    Excavations at the adjacent sites of Gorham's Cave and Vanguard Cave have yielded a rich combination of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental finds covering a timespan of over 100,000 years. This volume deals with the primary results of the 1995-1998...
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  • Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John L. Long

    Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John L. Long

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    Scientists have recovered more than a billion fossils, but no discovery has been more breath-taking than the fossils recently found in northern China, findings which prove that several families of dinosaurs had feathers, or feathery hair-like coverings,...
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  • First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876

    First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876

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    Humans 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...
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  • The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution by Hans-Dieter Sues 9781421428673

    The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution by Hans-Dieter Sues 9781421428673

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    The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles.Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be deposited on land. This moment marked the first step in the fascinating...
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  • The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution and Fate by Brian Switek

    The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution and Fate by Brian Switek

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    Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It has manifested itself in wings, sails, horns, armour, and an even greater array of appendages since the time of its origin. In...
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  • The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils, Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group Andrew Swift (University of Leicester) 9780901702654

    The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils, Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group Andrew Swift (University of Leicester) 9780901702654

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    The Rhaetian Penarth Group includes the former Westbury Beds, Cotham Beds, and White Lias. It crops out in a narrow strip from the Devon and Dorset coast to the mouth of the Tees, and is particularly well known from the exposures along the Bristol...
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  • Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach Sergio F. Vizcaíno 9780253070470

    Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach Sergio F. Vizcaíno 9780253070470

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    An essential introduction to the paleobiology of animal body size, locomotion, and feeding.Paleobiology is the branch of evolutionary biology involved in the reconstruction of the life histories of extinct organisms. It answers the questions, How do we...
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  • Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World by George McGhee

    Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World by George McGhee

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    Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more...
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  • The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long 9780801896958

    The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long 9780801896958

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    Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like-and are-monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through The Rise of Fishes, John A. Long's richly illustrated tour of the past 500 million years. Long has...
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  • Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison

    Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison

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    "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth."...
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  • The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson 9780198797524

    The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson 9780198797524

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    Since 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...
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  • How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by James Gorman 9780452296015

    How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by James Gorman 9780452296015

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296015Author Jack HornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 15mm
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  • The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution by Henry Gee

    The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution by Henry Gee

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    The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary...
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  • Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture by Dennis J. Stanford 9780520275782

    Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture by Dennis J. Stanford 9780520275782

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    Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture...
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  • Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs by Pat Shipman 9780674293946

    Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs by Pat Shipman 9780674293946

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    “A lively tale of dog domestication and migration.”—Nature“When, where, and how did the partnership between dogs and humans begin? Was it an accident? Was it inevitable?…A tour de force drawing together under one proverbial roof what science can tell us...
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  • The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life by Xian-Guang Hou 9781118896389

    The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life by Xian-Guang Hou 9781118896389

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    The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of...
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  • The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time by Lance Grande

    The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time by Lance Grande

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    The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...
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