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  • Diversity and dynamics of the mammalian fauna in Denmark throughout the last glacial-interglacial cycle, 115-0 kyr BP by Kim Aaris-Sorensen 9781444334838

    Diversity and dynamics of the mammalian fauna in Denmark throughout the last glacial-interglacial cycle, 115-0 kyr BP by Kim Aaris-Sorensen 9781444334838

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    This monograph presents the changes in diversity and distribution in time and space of the mammalian fauna in Denmark and adjacent areas throughout the Weichselian glaciation and the Holocene (115-0 kyr BP). In all, 77 terrestrial and marine mammal...
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  • Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record by Bruce S. Lieberman 9780632044726

    Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record by Bruce S. Lieberman 9780632044726

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    Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey...
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  • Baas Becking's Geobiology: Or Introduction to Environmental Science by Don E. Canfield 9780470673812

    Baas Becking's Geobiology: Or Introduction to Environmental Science by Don E. Canfield 9780470673812

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    Laurens Baas Becking was a pioneer in the field of microbial ecology and the father of Geobiology. This is the first English translation of Baas Becking s Geobiologie: of Inleiding tot de Millieukunde published in Dutch in 1934. This book provides a...
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  • Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions by Peter Ward 9780231118620

    Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions by Peter Ward 9780231118620

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    Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species-from single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemoths-to suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms. Today the rich diversity...
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  • The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America by Peter M. LeTourneau 9780231111621

    The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America by Peter M. LeTourneau 9780231111621

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    Rift basins of Triassic-Jurassic age that are associated with the breakup of the Pangean supercontinent contain an extraordinary record of the physical and biological conditions during this important period of Earth history. Rather than studying the rift...
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  • Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution by J. Valentine 9780691611228

    Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution by J. Valentine 9780691611228

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    Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations. Originally published in 1986...
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  • Stratigraphic Paleobiology: Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space Mark E. Patzkowsky 9780226649382

    Stratigraphic Paleobiology: Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space Mark E. Patzkowsky 9780226649382

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    Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, but...
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  • Applications of Palaeontology: Techniques and Case Studies by Robert Wynn Jones 9781107005235

    Applications of Palaeontology: Techniques and Case Studies by Robert Wynn Jones 9781107005235

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    Palaeontology, the scientific study of fossils, has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between Earth and life history. This book provides a comprehensive and thematic treatment of applied...
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  • Biominerals and Fossils Through Time by Jean-Pierre Cuif 9780521874731

    Biominerals and Fossils Through Time by Jean-Pierre Cuif 9780521874731

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    Fossils are essential to the reconstruction of the evolution of life and episodes in Earth history. Knowledge of biomineralization - the processes associated with the formation of mineralized biological structures - is essential to properly evaluate data...
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  • The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia Richard H. Madden (Duke University, North Carolina) 9780521872416

    The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia Richard H. Madden (Duke University, North Carolina) 9780521872416

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    Gran Barranca in Patagonia exposes the most complete sequence of middle Cenozoic paleofaunas in South America. It is the only continuous continental fossil record of the Southern Hemisphere between 42 and 18 million years ago, when climates at high...
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  • An Introduction to the Earth-Life System by Charles S. Cockell 9780521493918

    An Introduction to the Earth-Life System by Charles S. Cockell 9780521493918

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    This concise undergraduate textbook brings together Earth and biological sciences to explore the co-evolution of the Earth and life over geological time. Written for a one-semester course, it explores the Earth system at and above the surface of the...
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  • 101 American Fossil Sites You've Gotta See by Albert B Dickas 9780878426812

    101 American Fossil Sites You've Gotta See by Albert B Dickas 9780878426812

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878426812Author Albert B DickasFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Mountain Press Publishing Co.Publisher Mountain Press Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...
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  • Fossils by Rebecca Pettiford 9781624968273

    Fossils by Rebecca Pettiford 9781624968273

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624968273Author Rebecca PettifordFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Jump! IncorporatedWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 191mm...
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  • One Long Experiment: Scale and Process in Human History by Ronald Martin

    One Long Experiment: Scale and Process in Human History by Ronald Martin

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    Addressing the history of the earth in terms of geological process and the resolution of the fossil record, Ronald Martin presents a report on the current state of knowledge on a group of interconnected themes - process, scale and hierarchy, and the...
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  • Life in Amber by George O. Poinar, Jr.

    Life in Amber by George O. Poinar, Jr.

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    A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804720014Author George O. Poinar, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 721g
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  • Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis by Philip D. Gingerich

    Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis by Philip D. Gingerich

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    How fast is evolution, and why does it matter? The rate of evolution, and whether it is gradual or punctuated, is a hotly debated topic among biologists and paleontologists. This book compiles and compares examples of evolution from laboratory, field,...
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  • Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out by Kenneth Carpenter

    Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out by Kenneth Carpenter

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    How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain? Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus ("high-spined lizard"), paleontologist...
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  • Seismosaurus: The Earth Shaker by David D. Gillette

    Seismosaurus: The Earth Shaker by David D. Gillette

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    This scientific detective story is the first book which explains clearly the science used by paleontologists, and the new, cutting-edge techniques that led to the discovery of Seismosaurus, the longest dinosaur yet known--and possibly the largest land...
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  • The New Dinosaurs by William Stout 9780743407243

    The New Dinosaurs by William Stout 9780743407243

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    A FANTASTIC NEW VIEW OF A LOST ERA. Here are dinosaurs as you've never seen them before in a dramatically expanded new edition of the book that started the renaissance in dinosaur books. Here are dinosaurs that are swift, stunning, scary and stupendous,...
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  • African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions by Gerhard Maier

    African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions by Gerhard Maier

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    From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted...
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  • The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions Paul B. Wignall 9780691142098

    The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions Paul B. Wignall 9780691142098

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    Two 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. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on...
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  • Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart

    Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart

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    Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs...
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  • The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa by Jamale Ijouiher 9780253063311

    The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa by Jamale Ijouiher 9780253063311

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    An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa.Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were...
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  • Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance Gerald Mayr 9781119020769

    Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance Gerald Mayr 9781119020769

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    Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the...
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  • Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew by John Pickrell 9780231180986

    Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew by John Pickrell 9780231180986

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    From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier...
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  • Dinosaurs of Darkness: In Search of the Lost Polar World by Thomas H. Rich

    Dinosaurs of Darkness: In Search of the Lost Polar World by Thomas H. Rich

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    Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar...
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  • Dinosaurs 101: What Everyone Should Know about Dinosaur Anatomy, Ecology, Evolution, and More by Philip J Currie 9780998289342

    Dinosaurs 101: What Everyone Should Know about Dinosaur Anatomy, Ecology, Evolution, and More by Philip J Currie 9780998289342

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998289342Author Philip J CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Van Rye Publishing, LLCPublisher Van Rye Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...
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  • Sabertooth by Mauricio Anton

    Sabertooth by Mauricio Anton

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    With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that...
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  • Microfossils Howard Armstrong (University of Durham) 9780632052790

    Microfossils Howard Armstrong (University of Durham) 9780632052790

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    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. particular attention is given to...
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  • Cetacean Paleobiology Felix G. Marx (University of Otago) 9781118561539

    Cetacean Paleobiology Felix G. Marx (University of Otago) 9781118561539

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    Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently, remained in...
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  • The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions by Paul B. Wignall

    The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions by Paul B. Wignall

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    Two 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. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on...
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  • Fundamentals of Geobiology by Andrew H. Knoll 9781405187527

    Fundamentals of Geobiology by Andrew H. Knoll 9781405187527

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    2012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has...
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  • Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution by Olivier Rieppel

    Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution by Olivier Rieppel

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    Where do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have spurred heated debate and intense research for more than two hundred years. Brilliantly weaving evidence from the latest paleontological discoveries with an accessible,...
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  • Fossil Identification Field Guide by Patrick Nurre 9780998283258

    Fossil Identification Field Guide by Patrick Nurre 9780998283258

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998283258Author Patrick NurreFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Northwest TreasuresPublisher Northwest TreasuresWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm...
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  • Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott D. Sampson 9780520269897

    Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott D. Sampson 9780520269897

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    This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers. Situating these fascinating animals in a broad ecological and evolutionary...
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  • Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime by Peter Murray

    Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime by Peter Murray

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    Over millions of years, Australia's unique biodiversity has produced a large cabinet of curiosities. Among the weirder members of this group were the Mihirungs, members of the now extinct family Dromornithidae. Made up of several genera of flightless...
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  • Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America by Paul S. Martin 9780520252431

    Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America by Paul S. Martin 9780520252431

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    As recently as 11,000 years ago - 'near time' to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of...
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  • Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline by David Sepkoski

    Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline by David Sepkoski

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    Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement...
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  • The Star-crossed Stone: The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil by Kenneth J. McNamara 9780226514697

    The Star-crossed Stone: The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil by Kenneth J. McNamara 9780226514697

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    Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils - or echinoids - have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when...
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  • The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet by Anthony J. Martin 9781681776569

    The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet by Anthony J. Martin 9781681776569

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    Humans 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...
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