1,760円 In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company geologist would unknowingly find the evidence for a startling discovery. Long before the North Slope of Alaska was being exploited for its petroleum resources it was a place where dinosaurs roamed. Dinosaurs ...

1,760円 Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventureーemerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of fo...

1,760円 Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls 6 feet long, stood ...

1,760円 The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. Prior fieldwork confirmed the richness of the area, but a major effort begun in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new...

2,000円 Quando nel 1986, durante una serie di lezioni sui «grandi enigmi dell’evoluzione», vede proiettata una diapositiva in cui un pesce è collegato da una freccia a un «anfibio primitivo», il paleontologo specializzando Neil Shubin resta folgorato come da «un amore a prima vista». È l’innesco di una r...

2,319円 **An “epic and joyous” (Adam Rutherford) history of our species, using recent scientific discoveries to explore humanity’s domestication of the plants and animals that have allowed human civilization to thrive. “An excellent point of entry for anyone who wants to understand the new deep human his...

14,094円 An essential introduction to the paleobiology of animal body size, locomotion, and feeding. Paleobiology is the branch of evolutionary biology involved in the reconstruction of the life histories of extinct organisms. It answers the questions, How do we use fossils to reconstruct the size of preh...

19,447円 The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortès has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts over the last 3000 years and of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change, unparalleled in the Mediterranean. This book shows in detai...

17,016円 This book provides a comprehensive, detailed, and coherent spatio-temporal account of Caribbean mangrove evolution from its evolutionary origins to the present that is not available for any mangrove region in the world. Mangroves are intertidal wetland forests that play a crucial role in the main...

1,000円 Какого цвета был ихтиозавр? Сколько калорий в день требовалось мегалодону? Можно ли летать на брюшных ребрах (и что это вообще такое)? Как выглядели змеи с ногами, черепахи без панциря или земноводные с плавниками? Кто кого ел, как передвигался и чем дышал? Сегодня палеонтология отвечает на вопро...

8,568円 All-new edition of the world’s leading vertebrate palaeontology textbook, now addressing key evolutionary transitions and ecological drivers for vertebrate evolution Richly illustrated with colour illustrations of the key species and cladograms of all major vertebrate taxa, Vertebrate Palaeontolo...

2,213円 "A paleontological odyssey that manages to be informative, witty, educationalー and enormous fun." ー Simon Winchester, author of The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World An epoch tale of a scientist and an artist on the ultimate 5,000-mile paleo road trip. C...