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ISBN: 9780203642528 - Telling the Evolutionary Time Telling the Evolutionary Time
Donoghue, Philip C J; Smith, M Paul

ISBN10: 9780203642528  ISBN13: 9780203642528
Publisher: Taylor and Francis CRC Press
Format: Electronic Book
Determining the precise timing for the evolutionary origin of groups of organisms has become increasingly important as scientists from diverse disciplines attempt to examine rates of anatomical or molecular evolution and correlate intrinsic... More

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ISBN: 9780444529497 - Trace Fossils Trace Fossils
William Miller, III

ISBN10: 9780080475356  ISBN13: 9780080475356
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Format: Electronic Book
This book serves as an up-to-date introduction, as well as overview to modern trace fossil research and covers nearly all of the essential aspects of modern ichnology. Divided into three section, Trace Fossils covers the historical background and... More

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ISBN: 9780195370126 - Once and Future Giants What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals Once and Future Giants What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
Levy, Sharon

ISBN10: 9780199831548  ISBN13: 9780199831548
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
At the close of the last Ice Age a whole menagerie of giant beasts vanished forever. In ONCE AND FUTURE GIANTS, Sharon Levy argues that understanding this mass extinction will be critical to the protection of threatened species worldwide. More

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ISBN: 9780199548989 - Darwin's Lost World The hidden history of animal life Darwin's Lost World The hidden history of animal life
MARTIN, BRASIER

ISBN10: 9780191567735  ISBN13: 9780191567735
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Darwin puzzled over why ancient Precambrian rocks seemed barren of life. Brasier describes the quest to shed light on Darwin's Lost World, the discovery of its strange creatures, and what drove the sudden flurry of evolution called the Cambrian... More

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ISBN: 9780632051472 - Palaeobiology II Palaeobiology II
Crowther, Peter R; Briggs, Derek

ISBN10: 9780470999288  ISBN13: 9780470999288
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Electronic Book
Palaeobiology: 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... More

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ISBN: 9780195176193 - Echoes of Life What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History Echoes of Life What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History
M, GAINES SUSAN

ISBN10: 9780199721085  ISBN13: 9780199721085
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules in ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll, presumably from plants that had lived millions of years in the past. Many years later this insight was revisited and the... More

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ISBN: 9780849316326 - Cenozoic Seas Cenozoic Seas
Petuch, Edward J

ISBN10: 9780203495858  ISBN13: 9780203495858
Publisher: Taylor and Francis CRC Press
Format: Electronic Book
>The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold mine for interested scientists. The last thirty million years of Earth history are superbly chronicled by a succession of fossil assemblages... More

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ISBN: 9780444514783 - Ice Age Southern Andes Ice Age Southern Andes
Heusser, C J

ISBN10: 9780080534381  ISBN13: 9780080534381
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Format: Electronic Book
The Southern Andes, stretching from the subtropics to the subantarctic, are ideally located for palaeoenvironmental research. Over the broad and continuous latitudinal extent of the cordillera (-24), vegetation is adjusted to climatic gradients... More

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ISBN: 9780124833555 - Paleomagnetism Paleomagnetism
McFadden, Phillip L ; McElhinny, Michael W

ISBN10: 9780080513461  ISBN13: 9780080513461
Publisher: Elsevier Science Academic Press
Format: Electronic Book
Paleomagnetism is the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks. It has been paramount in determining that the continents have drifted over the surface of the Earth throughout geological time. The fossil magnetism preserved in the ocean floor has... More

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ISBN: 9780521719025 - Dinosaurs Dinosaurs
Fastovsky/Weishampel

ISBN10: 9780511474651  ISBN13: 9780511474651
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, comes a general introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists, designed to excite readers about science by using the ever-popular animals - the dinosaurs ... More