'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman
Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop……続きを見る
PALEOECOLOGY
PALEOECOLOGY
Past, Present and Future
Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life……続きを見る
著者:Dale A. Russell
出版社: Indiana University Press
発売日: 2009年07月14日
How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environme……続きを見る
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 foss……続きを見る
著者:Stephen T. Asma
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend……続きを見る
Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the……続きを見る
著者:Stephen T. Asma
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend……続きを見る
The evolutionary history of life includes two primary components: phylogeny and timescale. Phylogeny refers to the branching order (relationships) of species or other taxa within a group and is cruc……続きを見る
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 mam……続きを見る
著者:Gowan Dawson
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2016年04月21日
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certaintyー“Show me the bone, and I wi……続きを見る
The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existen……続きを見る
Summary of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall | Includes Analysis
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall proposes to explain the causes of the meteoroid that wiped out the……続きを見る
著者:Peter Andrews
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年10月23日
Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringi……続きを見る
Based on the latest scientific discoveries, this “unauthorized biography” of the Humans recounts the story of our distant ancestors during the past 6 million years, since the line of our extended fa……続きを見る
The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigatin……続きを見る
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Paläontologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gefiederte Giganten stehen im Mittelpunkt des Taschenbuches 'Vogelriesen in de……続きを見る
The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was established on 17th December, 1931 by a great visionary Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis to promote research in the theory and applications of statistics……続きを見る
We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy an……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2015年12月20日
Encourage your child to open the pages of this book to meet the different kinds of prehistoric animals. Knowledge of these animals is very important in terms of helping a child understand the theory……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2015年12月20日
Though dinosaurs no longer exist, their past continue to provide clues to the future. This book describes some of these magnificent beasts, with strong emphasis on their flight capability. The use o……続きを見る
The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for ide……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年08月06日
This edited volume describes the geology, stratigraphy, anthropology, archaeology, dating, taphonomy, paleobotany, paleontology and paleoecology of Azokh caves (also known as Azykh or Azikh). The ch……続きを見る
The best illustrated and most comprehensive book ever published on the largest land animals the world has ever known.
From The Land Before Time to Jurassic Park, images of fantastically large, long-……続きを見る
著者:Brian Noble
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together. Follow……続きを見る
Extrait : "Depuis le jour où l'homme a , pour la première fois, soulevé l'épiderme terrestre pour y creuser des sillons et pour y tracer des chemins ; depuis l'époque où il a su pénétrer dans le sei……続きを見る
Captivating photographs of the world’s most detailed bird fossils illuminate the early diversity of avifauna.
When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, th……続きを見る
The study of volcano-ice interactions, or 'glaciovolcanism', is a field experiencing exponential growth. This comprehensive volume presents a discussion of the distinctive processes and characterist……続きを見る
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, Acroc……続きを見る
Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-discip……続きを見る
What began as a hunting trip to British Columbia’s Northern Rockies in 2000 turns into one of the province’s most important fossil finds – the Monroe Dinosaur Trackway in Kakwa Provincial Park. In S……続きを見る