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Evolution of Fossil Ecosystemsby Paul Selden; John Nudds
Manson Publishing Ltd 2004; US$ 35.20Succinct summaries of 14 of the better-known fossil Lagerstätten, beautifully illustrated throughout by over 250 colour photographs and diagrams, of value to a wide range of students and professionals in palaeontology and related sciences, and to amateur enthusiasts. more...
Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolutionby Euan Clarkson
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 104.95Invertebrate 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 of the early metazoans. New work on the classification of the major phyla (in particular brachiopods and molluscs) has been incorporated. The section on trace fossils is extensively rewritten. The author has taken care to involve specialists in the major groups, to ensure the taxonomy is as up-to-date and accurate as possible. more...
Vanished Oceanby Dorrik Stow
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 15.77This 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 Sea. There were other great oceans in the history of the Earth - Iapetus, Panthalassa - but Tethys was the last of them, vanishing a mere moment (in geological terms) before Man came on the scene. Once Tethys stretched across theworld. How do we know? And how could such a vast ocean vanish? The clues of its existence are scattered from Morocco to China. This book tells the story of the ocean, from its origins some 250 million years ago, to its disappearance. It also tells of its impact on life... more...
Evolution of Island Mammalsby Alexandra van der Geer; George Lyras; John de Vos; Michael Dermitzakis
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2011; US$ 99.95Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs that would have been formidable to their mainland ancestors. This timely and innovative book is the first to offer a much-needed synthesis of recent advances in the exciting field of the evolution and extinction of fossil insular placental mammals. It provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on fossil island mammals worldwide, ranging from the Oligocene to the onset of the Holocene. The book addresses evolutionary processes and key aspects of insular mammal... more...
Theropithecusby Nina G. Jablonski
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 83.00This unique volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of all aspects of the biology of the Old World monkey genus, Theropithecus, which evolved alongside our human ancestors. more...
Origins of Human Behaviourby Robert Foley
Routledge 1990; US$ 148.00This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject. more...
Archaeology of Human Bonesby Simon Mays
Routledge 1998; US$ 49.95The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to what can be learnt from the scientific study of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. more...
Drawing Out Leviathanby Keith M. Parsons
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95"... are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer." At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens... more...
Brachiopods Past and Presentby L Robin M Cocks; Sarah L Long
CRC Press 2001; US$ 139.95Research interest in fossil and living braciopods has generated, as yet, unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Zoologists and palaeontologists discuss these questions by using, and contrasting with, pre-existing knowledge. more...
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egyptby William Nothdurft; Josh Smith
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 11.99The date is January 11, 1911 . A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals. In this, he will be disappointed, for the rocks here will prove to be much older than he thinks. They are nearly a hundred million years old. Stromer is about to learn that he has walked into the age of the dinosaurs. At the bottom of the Bahariya Depression, Stromer will find the remains of four immense and entirely new dinosaurs, along with dozens of other unique specimens.... more...