Paleontology

This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology.In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology, experts Ali...

The 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,...

This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-footed vertebrates appeared, and ending 200 million...

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years prior to the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science and Tech) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400076963Author Ann GibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor...

In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential...

Approximately 12 million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs, a diverse terrestrial fauna inhabited what is now northcentral Montana. The author describes and evaluates the systematic relationships of the large mammalian fauna of this area,...

An introduction to how life has colonized and shaped the Earth, turning it into the habitable planet of today Exploring the geological basis for life on Earth, Introduction to Geobiology systematically examines the interaction between the geosphere and...

One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gould's acclaimed essays...

The authors explore the late Precambrian and earliest Cambrian fossil record to explain the Cambrian phenomenon and discuss the possibility of a major turnover in marine ecology at the beginning of the Cambrian period or whether a new, improved type of...

This text provides a general overview of how plants and animals made the transition from water to land. It presents integrated summaries of the evidence from both fossils and living organisms, and from molecular to organismic levels. The authors consider...

The Cambrian radiation was the explosive evolution of marine life that started 550,000,000 years ago. It ranks as one of the most important episodes in Earth history. This key event in the history of life on our planet changed the marine biosphere and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684818693Author Evan JevnikarFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Yellow Pear PressPublisher Yellow Pear Press

The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them breathtakingly complete, have been found in nearly all parts of the globe at a rapid pace. Coupled with the application...

Buried within a lost world, astonishing evidence reveals the behavior of extinct animals, giving us a glimpse at both everyday and epic events. If we look at these discoveries carefully, the untold stories of these magnificent creatures come into view,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897665969Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Bbt SciencePublisher Bbt Science

Originally published in Germany in 1950, and now translated into English for the first time, "Basic Questions in Paleontology" has both historical importance and contemporary relevance because Otto Schindewolf's ideas, considered revolutionary in his...

Early Continent Evolution of the North China Craton discusses the tectono-thermal regimes of the early continental crust in the North China Craton (NCC), from the Hadean to the early Paleoproterozoic, reconstructing the evolutional framework and...

Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal "Nature". "Rise of the Dragon"...

The spinosaurs – the controversial group including the largest land predator of all time, the Spinosaurus – are brought to life in this cutting-edge review of their biology and ecology

The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian...

Paleomagnetism is the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks. It has been paramount in determining that the continents have drifted over the surface of the Earth throughout geological time. The fossil magnetism preserved in the ocean floor has...

Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past. Fossil Fungi is the first encyclopedic book devoted exclusively to fossil fungi and their activities through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962532075Author Amy Joy HessFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Ocean to Mountain PublishingPublisher Ocean to Mountain PublishingWeight(grams)...

What light do fossils shed on the deep history of life's most diverse phylum, the Arthropoda? Are the interrelationships between major groups of arthropods-crustaceans, chelicerates, and tracheates-resolved the same way whether or not fossils are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641609159Author Kirk JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 1061gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393464624Author Michael A SuskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Allroneofus PublishingPublisher Allroneofus PublishingWeight(grams)...

This is a captivating evolutionary narrative of the human body, exploring the pivotal traits that make humans unique as a species. It provides a better understanding of why we look the way we do, through an evolutionary morphological lens, by delving...

Until quite recently, French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) opposed the biological theory of evolution, and championed the geological theory of catastrophism; but his research on fossils helped form and bring credibility to geology and...

Reconstructing Olduvai: The Behavior of Early Humans at David's Site provides the necessary information for future generations of archaeologists to peer into the lifestyle of early humans. Much of what is known about these hominins originates from the...

Described as 'a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers' by the "San Francisco Chronicle", David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California - its desert,...

Paleoethnobotany explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence. Using different approaches, these essays apply botanical knowledge to studies of archaeological plant remains and apply paleoethnobotany to...

A study of the stratigraphical occurrences of non-ammonoid cephalopods in the Late-Silurian-Middle Devonian.More than 2000 cephalopod specimens were collected from a section in the Tafilalt of south-east Morocco for the study.For the first time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852722572Author Beris M. CoxImprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey

"A fossil," writes Jasper Burns, "is first of all a thing of remarkable beauty. The sense of awe and exhilaration so many of us feel in the presence of the Ocean, or the Pyramids, or the Great Wall of China comes to me when I find a broken shell that's a...

This book is both an introduction and an original contribution to a study of the major evolutionary events, from the orgin of life to the emerence of the human mind.This book is both an introduction and an original contribution to a study of the major...

This collection of case studies seeks to re-examine the understanding of the speciation patterns that appear in the fossil record through analysis of the patterns and their presumed processes. The contributions address the questions surrounding...

This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years. It includes discussions of the modern plant communities, causal factors for environmental change, biotic...

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive fossil record of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543527087Author Ava SawyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press