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“judith winston”

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  • To Life

    Jews Exploring Nature

    by Joel Greenberg, Judith Winston ...
    To Life explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who increased in important ways our understanding of various aspects of natural history. In eight compelling chapter-long biographies, naturalist Joel Greenberg demonstrates the diversity of both Jewish identity and the natural sciences.Greenberg’s rich biographical sketches spotlight great Jewish ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Describing Species

    Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologists

    by Judith Winston ...
    New species are discovered every day—and cataloguing all of them has grown into a nearly insurmountable task worldwide. Now, this definitive reference manual acts as a style guide for writing and filing species descriptions. New collecting techniques and new technology have led to a dramatic increase in the number of species that are discovered. Explorations of unstudied regions and new habitats ... Read more

    Was $53.99 USD Now $44.99 USD

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  • Why Fish Don't Exist

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  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

    A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    by Steve Brusatte ...
    By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us[New Scientist; The Times UK]National Bestseller • Top 10 Nonfiction of the Year: Kirkus • Best Science Book of the Year: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty ... Read more

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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

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  • The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

    The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution

    by Elaine Morgan ...
    Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies: why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control our rate of breathing? The answers point to one conclusion: millions of years ago our ancestors were trapped in a semi-aquatic environment. In ... Read more

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  • Fossil Men

    The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

    by Kermit Pattison ...
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  • The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack

    And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

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  • Trilobites of Black Cat Mountain

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  • Cannibalism

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