Strata Stories: Narratives from Earth's L...
1,050円 Beneath the surface of our world lies a vast and intricate record of Earth's history, written in layers of rock, fossils, and shifting landscapes. Every mountain range, ocean basin, and volcanic plain tells a storyーone of immense geological forces, ancient ecosystems, and cataclysmic transformat...
Ancient Dragons of the Sky
1,122円 Dragons of the Air is one of the earliest comprehensive studies of pterosaurs, the dinosaurs that dominated the skies during the Mesozoic Era. First published in 1901, Dragons of the Air is a groundbreaking work by renowned palaeontologist Harry Govier Seeley. In this volume, Seeley provides deta...
Spinosaur Tales
2,600円 The spinosaurs – the dinosaur group that includes the largest land predator of all time, the awe-inspiring Spinosaurus – star in this cutting-edge review. The giant sail-backed carnivorous dinosaur Spinosaurus is one of the most famous of all dinosaurs; a staple of documentaries, books and video ...
Sur les traces du nouveau T. rex
2,285円 Saviez-vous que les dinosaures vivaient partout sur la Terre, de l’Alaska à l’Antarctique ? Que loin d’être des « reptiles stupides », certains étaient des animaux communautaires capables de vivre en meute, de communiquer ou de prodiguer des soins parentaux ? À l’aide d’exemples choisis parmi les...
The Dinosauria, Second Edition
8,169円 When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses ...
Embryos in Deep Time
11,981円 How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of diff...
Across Atlantic Ice
3,517円 Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New Wo...
The Walking Whales
2,108円 Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembl...
Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods
11,981円 The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly important analytical tool for understanding the life history of ancient organisms. This book provides an essential primer and manual for using fossil bone histology to investigate the biology of extinct tetr...
Frozen Earth
2,952円 In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciationーnearly three billion years agoーto the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dr...
Dodging Extinction
4,222円 Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geol...
The Fossil Chronicles
3,799円 Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the ...
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