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This guide analyzes the changing geography, the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species, and the affect of climate on living... Bringing together experts from several disciplines, this volume collects the best papers presented at the international workshop on...
This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of... What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this...
The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them... Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford combine their research with Mauricio Antón's impeccable reconstructions to present a remarkable...
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs... Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity...
An engaging area of biology for more than a century, the study of macroevolution continues to offer profound insight into our... Concern about the effects of global change on our planet's future has driven much current research into the last few thousand years of...
In this volume John Murray investigates the ecological processes that control the distribution, abundance, and species diversity of... This beautifully illustrated volume describes the entire flora and fauna of the famous Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil - one...
In Plants and the K-T Boundary, two of the world's leading experts in palynology and paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the... This second volume completes the unique survey of North American Tertiary mammals, and covers all the remaining taxa not contained in...
Fossils are essential to the reconstruction of the evolution of life and episodes in Earth history. Knowledge of biomineralization - the... One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of dinosaurs under water. While most of the...
Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as... This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the...
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and... This volume, the first in a series devoted to the paleoanthropological resources of the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia, studies Homo...
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate... The second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains the definitive...
From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found,... More than three hundred million years ago-a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared-vertebrate animals...
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