Palaeontology books

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Corn in Clay: Maize Paleoethnobotany in Precolumbian Art

Corn in Clay: Maize Paleoethnobotany in Precolumbian...

Author: Mary Eubanks
ISBN: 9780813016696
Format: Hardback
$158.27

This work looks at contact between ancient American cultures. It integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient...  Read More >>

Reef Evolution

Reef Evolution

Author: Rachel Wood (Royal Society Research Fellow, Royal Society Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198577843
Format: Paperback
$171.95

Coral reefs are the largest biologically constructed features known. This text documents those biological innovations...  Read More >>

Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States

Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western...

Author: Martin Lockley ,  Adrian P. Hunt
ISBN: 9780231079273
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of fossil footprints, for both dinosaurs and other vertebrates,...  Read More >>

The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty

The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty

Author: Katherine Rogers
ISBN: 9780878424047
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Science meets the great outdoors in this personal perspective of the Sternbergs, who formed the world's first family-run...  Read More >>

Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations

Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations...

Author: Jean-Marie Mariotti ,  D.M. Alloin
ISBN: 9780792357094
Format: Paperback
$290.40

The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled...  Read More >>

Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations

Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations...

Author: Jean-Marie Mariotti ,  D.M. Alloin
ISBN: 9780792357087
Format: Hardback
$720.72

The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled...  Read More >>

Seismosaurus: The Earth Shaker

Seismosaurus: The Earth Shaker

Author: David Gillette ,  Mark Hallett
ISBN: 9780231078757
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The first book to clearly explain the science used by paleontologists and the new, cutting-edge techniques that...  Read More >>

Numerical Palaeobiology: Computer-based Modelling and Analysis of Fossils and their Distributions

Numerical Palaeobiology: Computer-based Modelling and...

Author: David A. T. Harper (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780471974055
Format: Hardback
$544.95

Numerical Palaeobiology Computer-Based Modelling and Analysis of Fossils and their Distributions Edited by David...  Read More >>

Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods: Development and Evolution Form, Construction, and Function Taphonomy, Palaeoecology, Palaeobiogeography, Biostratigraphy, and Basin Analysis

Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods:...

Author: Federico Olóriz ,  Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar
ISBN: 9780306459382
Format: Hardback
$630.96

Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium on Cephalopods: Present and Past, held in Granada, Spain, July...  Read More >>

Functional Morphology of the Invertebrate Skeleton

Functional Morphology of the Invertebrate Skeleton

Author: Enrico Savazzi ,  Enrico Savazzi
ISBN: 9780471977766
Format: Hardback
$964.95

This volume considers functional morphology and parallels the established Belhaven palaeontological studies. It...  Read More >>

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary...

Author: Raymond S. Bradley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
ISBN: 9780121240103
Format: Hardback
$279.84

"Paleoclimatology is the study of the Earth's past climates. In Paleoclimatology, Bradley begins by discussing...  Read More >>

Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation: North of Mexico

Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American...

Author: Alan H Graham
ISBN: 9786610761371
Format: Electronic book text
$390.06

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Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications

Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications...

Author: George McGhee, Jr.
ISBN: 9780231106160
Format: Hardback
$248.95

This text provides background and steps in defining geometric parameters for organic form in order to generate a...  Read More >>

Fossils and Evolution

Fossils and Evolution

Author: T. S. Kemp (Curator of the Zoological Collections and University Lecturer, Curator of the Zoological Collections and University Lecturer, Oxford University)
ISBN: 9780198504245
Format: Paperback
$104.95

The book interprets evidence from biology and from geology in order to describe and interpret how fossils are used...  Read More >>

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Arid Lands

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Arid Lands

Author: E. Derbyshire ,  A.K. Singhvi
ISBN: 9789054107101
Format: Hardback
$205.00

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Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands - Volume 26

Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands...

Author: Heine Klaus ,  Klaus Heine
ISBN: 9789054104766
Format: Hardback
$225.00

Palaeopalynology; quarternary and recent palynology; pollen morphology; etc.  Read More >>

Paleomagnetic Principles and Practice

Paleomagnetic Principles and Practice

Author: L. Tauxe
ISBN: 9780792352587
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Paleomagnetic data are useful in many applications in Earth Science from determining paleocurrent directions to...  Read More >>

Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Records

Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events...

Author: Marie-Pierre Aubry ,  Spencer Lucas
ISBN: 9780231102384
Format: Hardback
$265.95

This book is a comprehensive collection of the best scholarship available on the transition between the Paleocene...  Read More >>

Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Type as a Key to Vertebrate Evolution

Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Type as a Key to Vertebrate...

Author: Ernst-Michael Kranich
ISBN: 9780940262935
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Considers the evolution of vertebrae and shows that there is a common principle underlying the disparate animal...  Read More >>

Palaeoecology: Ecosystems, Environments and Evolution

Palaeoecology: Ecosystems, Environments and Evolution...

Author: P.J. Brenchley ,  D.A.T Harper
ISBN: 9780412434501
Format: Paperback
$128.00

Palaeoecology provides an account of the subject for students of specialist palaeoecology courses.  Read More >>

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird...

Author: Pat Shipman
ISBN: 9780684849652
Format: Paperback
$60.59

The discovery of a fossil with avian feathers and a reptilian skull seemed to offer tangible proof of Darwin's theory...  Read More >>

Wetlands of Shropshire and Staffs

Wetlands of Shropshire and Staffs

Author: Mark Leah ,  C. E. Wells
ISBN: 9781862200234
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Following introductory chapters, the lowland wetlands of each county are described area-by-area. Detailed stratigraphic,...  Read More >>

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