4,932円 What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million years, pal...

11,979円 Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is the first full-length study of dinosaurs in Brazil. Some 500 dinosaur trackways from the Cretaceous period still remain in the Rio do Peixe basins of Brazil, making it one of the largest trackways in the world. Veteran paleontologists Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de ...

9,160円 An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. For...

1,408円 This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life ...

3,520円 AU COMMENCEMENT, IL Y AVAIT (AUSSI) LES PLANTES L’histoire de la vie sur Terre est souvent décrite comme une série de grands moments au cours desquels a surgi une vie animale fascinante. Mais rien n’aurait été possible sans un acteur essentiel : les plantes. Que serait un tyrannosaure sans une fo...

500円 Journey through 4.6 billion years of planetary history in this comprehensive exploration of Earth's vast geological chronicle. Earth's Deep Time: Inside the Geological Clock reveals how our planet transformed from a molten, crater-scarred inferno into the life-sustaining world we inhabit today, o...

3,051円 Assesses the macroevolutionary turnover of paleotropical planktic graptolites during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME) via automated sequencing and capture-mark-recapture modeling. Graptolites exhibited a succession of turnover pulses (sensu Elizabeth Vrba) that were coincident with the ...

1,546円 Explore the power of myth as humanity first discovered it Collected Works of Joseph Campbell edition ー with up-to-date science In this first volume of The Masks of God ー Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology ー the preeminent mythologist looks at the wellsprings of myth. From th...