1,400円 The worldviews of the ancient cultures of Earth coincide in various references about the beginning of the world. That is the case of the primordial origin of chaos and darkness, the deep abysses. Was this literal or figurative? What if it was both? This thesis of comparative mythology provides a ...

2,693円 NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and ro...

10,943円 Taxonomists specializing in different groups once based phylogenetic analysis only on morphological data; molecular data was used more rarely. Although molecular systematics is routine today, the use of morphological data continues to be important, especially for phylogenetic placement of many ta...

40,627円 This book presents a hypothesis and evidence that organisms promote and ecosystems maximize biodiversity. All species have a net positive effect on their environment, other species, and diversity. The sun is 30% hotter than when life began, but the temperature has been kept moderate by life. Life...

12,103円 Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the ‘Species Problem.’ The authors represent experts in the philosophy of biology, in species-level evolutionary investigations, and in biodiversity stud...

33,165円 The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other geoscientists… This represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the development of the Florida carbonate platform, and it will assist other disciplines as ...

10,943円 This volume discusses the aspects of a phylogenetic analysis that go beyond basic calculation of most parsimonious trees. Practical application of all principles discussed is illustrated by reference to TNT, a freely available software package that can perform all the steps needed in a phylogenet...

1,400円 Amante de la paleontología, hace casi dos décadas comencé a encontrar muchas falencias en la teoría de la evolución. Las cosas que estudiaba y descubría no se correspondían con las afirmaciones de los evolucionistas, y había cada vez más inconsistencias, incongruencias, e, incluso, descaradas men...

1,045円 En la mitología griega la gorgona Medusa tenía el poder de petrificar a quien la mirara a los ojos. Los científicos de los siglos XVII y XVIII propusieron varias teorías para explicar la transformación de seres humanos en piedra, entre ellas, la acción de vapores exhalados en terremotos o las tra...

3,447円 A compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster? On its face, the story of mass extinction on Earth is one of unavoidable disaster. Asteroid smashes into planet; goodbye dinosaurs. Planetwide crises seem to be beyond our abil...

1,590円 L’homme de Néandertal ne cesse d’alimenter notre curiosité. Il a vécu en Europe entre 400 000 ans et 30 000 ans avant notre ère. Jusqu’à récemment il a été décrit purement et simplement comme une brute épaisse, plus proche du singe que de l’homme. Aujourd’hui tout a changé. Les chercheurs ont fai...

1,760円 True stories of fossil-hunting adventures around the globe from "a world-class field scientist [and] a highly entertaining writer" ( The American Scholar). Michael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patter...