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Extinctions in the History of Life
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 45.00Topical review of the role of extinction in evolution for students and researchers. more...
Ice Age Extinction
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 32.95Global warming seen from the other side: by the end of the last ice age, the earth had lost most of its large animal species and most of its humans. In a novel approach the author argues that the main cause of this catastrophic extinction was a drastic reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide, due to the long period of cold, and he backs up his theory... more...
Global Biogeography
Elsevier Science 1995; US$ 140.00This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order); examines the evolutionary effects of the major extinctions, and discusses... more...
The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 64.00A beautifully illustrated volume describing the unique fossils of the Crato Formation of Brazil. more...
The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 210.00Written by highly-qualified Argenitne scientists and scholars, this book focuses on the uninterrupted geological and palaeontological record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego since the Miocene-Pliocene boundary to the arrival of Man and Modern Times. This region is an outstanding area for research, with significant interest at the international level.... more...
Palaeobiology II
Wiley 2008; US$ 221.95Palaeobiology: A Synthesis was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality. Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther have once again brought together over 150 leading authorities from around the world to produce Palaeobiology II. Using the same successful formula, the content is arranged as a series of concise articles, taking... more...
Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene
Springer 2008; US$ 189.99The richly fossiliferous Neogene stratigraphic sections of the Dominican Republic serve as one of only a few geological research systems in the world where morphological stasis and punctuated speciation have been investigated in multiple lineages. This research system provides unprecedented opportunities for comparative studies of evolutionary stasis... more...
Polymerid Tribolites from the Cambrian of Northwestern Hunan, China, Two-Volume Set
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 265.00China is richly endowed with Cambrian strata yielding some of the best-preserved fossils known anywhere in the world. The trilobites are most important element in the fauna, and of scientific relevance for several reasons. First, they are of regional importance in the precise correlation of strata, and are of primary use in characterising mappable... more...
Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 185.00There are many competitive works on the market concerning evolutionary biology, but this volume is quite distinctive in its idiographic aspect focusing on Ostracoda viewed from a wide range of disciplines, ages and environments. The book deals with various lines of idiographic biology and palaeontology of Ostracoda and nomothetic trials focusing strongly... more...
After the Ice Age
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 18.00The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."— Ottowa Journal "A valuable new synthesis of facts and ideas about climate, geography, and life during the... more...









