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“howard armstrong”

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  • Microfossils

    by Howard Armstrong, Martin Brasier ...
    This is a new and completely rewritten edition of the well-known text Microfossils (first published in 1980) covering all the major microfossil groups, with information on taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeoecology.particular attention is given to the uses of microfossils in environmental reconstruction and biostratigraphynumerous line and half-tone illustrationsemphasis on practical ... Read more

    $105.00 USD

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  • Unbound

    How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

    by Richard L. Currier ...
    Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Human Bone Manual

    by Tim D. White, Pieter A. Folkens ...
    Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outisde the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information.* ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

    by William Nothdurft, Josh Smith ...
    The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals. In this, he will be disappointed ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Complete Dinosaur

    by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Earth After Us

    What legacy will humans leave in the rocks?

    by Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long dead, so too might they decode the rocks. The Earth After Us takes a novel approach to show how geologists unravel the information in the rocks. As ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Darwin's Lost World

    The hidden history of animal life

    by Martin Brasier ...
    Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists to solve it. What puzzled Darwin is that the most very ancient rocks, before the Cambrian, seemed to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliff

    by Michael Novacek ...
    Over the past six years Michael Novacek, the Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History, has led a team of international scientists to the Gobi Desert on the greatest dinosaur expedition of the late 20th century.Closed to the West since the 1920's, the remote sands of Mongolia's Gobi Desert constitute the richest fossil site in the world. In Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • When the Invasion of Land Failed

    The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions

    by George McGhee Jr. ...
    Series series The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology
    The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion almost failed—twice—because of the twin mass extinctions of the Late Devonian Epoch. Some 359 to 375 million years ago, these catastrophic events dealt our ancestors a blow that almost drove them back into the sea. If those extinctions had ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Quaternary Coral Reef Systems

    History, development processes and controlling factors

    by Lucien F. Montaggioni, Colin J.R. Braithwaite ...
    Series Book 5 - Developments in Marine Geology
    This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. Today coral ... Read more

    $133.19 USD

  • Animal Teeth and Human Tools

    A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia

    by Christy G. Turner II, Nicolai D. Ovodov, Olga V. Pavlova ...
    The culmination of more than a decade of fieldwork and related study, this unique book uses analyses of perimortem taphonomy in Ice Age Siberia to propose a new hypothesis for the peopling of the New World. The authors present evidence based on examinations of more than 9000 pieces of human and carnivore bone from 30 late Pleistocene archaeological and palaeontological sites, including cave and ... Read more

    $164.89 USD

  • Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life

    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Origin of Life and the First Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, Barcelona, June 25–28, 1973 Volume II: Contributed Papers

    Edited by John Oró, S.L. Miller, Cyril Ponnamperuma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $143.09 USD