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The brilliant dinosaur fanatic Switek investigates the tension between dinosaurs as scientific objects and pop-culture icons as he introduces us to the latest theories in paleontology.
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"This is the story of one of the greatest adventures of 20th-century science, told by the central figure. Walter Alvarez relates the still-evolving story with insight, clarity, and warmth. It is a great read for both scientist and layperson."—Richard... [ More...]
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This book, a companion to the author's Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America, discusses the Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles in Britain and the European continent eastward through present-day Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the... [ More...]
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This book presents current knowledge of the early vertebrates—mainly fish, but including some terrestrial creatures—which lived about 250 to 470 million years ago. The work focuses on anatomical and phylogenetic questions, but includes... [ More...]
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French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) is mostly remembered as being on the losing side of two great scientific debates, evolution and catastrophism. But his careful research on fossils helped give credibility to geology and paleontology. This volume... [ More...]
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The literature on Chinese fossil vertebrates is extremely difficult for Western scholars to assimilate and interpret. In part, this is because much of that literature is in Chinese, and few useful reviews exist in Western languages. Yet China has an... [ More...]
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Within the geological science of paleoclimatology, the earth's pre-Quaternary period—more than two million years ago—has been studied systematically only since the 1960's, when geologists started to take seriously the concept that the continents... [ More...]
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During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dating from approximately 600 million years ago, making them the oldest animal fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed... [ More...]
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The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and... [ More...]
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"Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids" takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their... [ More...]
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