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  • Evolution of the Ammonoids

    by Kate LoMedico Marriott, Alexander Bartholomew, Donald R. Prothero ...
    Ammonites are an extinct and charismatic lineage that persisted for over 300 million years. They were used, with other fossils, to corroborate the principle of faunal succession and launch the field of biostratigraphy. Despite intense research, many important questions remain unanswered. Furthermore, outdated hypotheses persist. Many new findings include a better understanding of their appearance ... Read more

    Was $133.99 CAD Now $119.54 CAD

  • Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development

    Edited by Beth Okamura, Alexander Gruhl, Jerri L. Bartholomew ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians. Myxozoans are of fundamental interest in understanding how early diverging metazoans have adopted parasitic lifestyles, and are also of considerable economic and ecological concern as endoparasites of fish. Synthesizing recent research, the chapters explore issues ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Macroevolution in Deep Time

    by Rituparna Bose, Alexander J. Bartholomew ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The prerequisite to investigating the underlying causes behind mass extinction is a profound understanding of the evolutionary history of both living and dead species. It is especially important to appreciate the significance of such studies in extinct organisms; especially in organisms that were abundant in a certain geologic era, but have subsequently dwindled or become extinct. Such studies ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • The Story of Life

    by Southwood ...
    How did life begin? What really was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? All these are addressed in this fascinating book. The story unfolds with the formation of the earth around four thousand million years ago, though it took until after massive bombardment by asteroids a hundred ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities

    The causes of mass extinctions

    by Tony Hallam ...
    This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and that caused the death of the dinosaurs. But that was not the worst mass extinction: that honour goes to the extinction at the end of the Permian ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

  • A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

    4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

    by Henry Gee ...
    **The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee’s grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life’s erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.” —Adrian Woolfson,**The Washington PostIn the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Paleozoic Age

    by Giancarlo Varnier ...
    The Palaeozoic or Primary Era spans a period of time ranging from 542 million to 251 million years ago. The name Paleozoic, derives from the fact that, in the past, it was considered the first geological age. The Paleozoic covers a range of about 300 million years, giving rise to many forms of life, until the appearance of thecodonts, commonly believed to be the ancestors of dinosaurs. ... Read more

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  • Written in Stone

    Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

    by Brian Switek ...
    Written In Stone is the first book to tell the story of the fossils that mapped out evolutionary history. 150 years after Darwin's Origin was published, scientists are beginning to understand how whales walked into the sea, how horses stood up on their tip-toes, how feathered dinosaurs took to the air, and how our ancestors came down from the trees. ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Life Through the Ages II

    Twenty-first Century Visions of Prehistory

    by Mark P. Witton ...
    A paleontologist shows what life was like on our planet long before the early humans emerged through words and illustrations.Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments they inhabited, and the challenges they faced living on an ever-changing planet. A worthy ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frozen in Time

    The Woolly Mammoth, The Ice Age, and The Bible

    by Michael Oard ...
    Earth's past is littered with the mysterious and unexplained: the pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, dinosaurs, and the list goes on and on as science looks for clues to decipher these puzzles.One such mystery surrounds the now-extinct creature called the woolly mammoth. Author and meteorologist Michael Oard has studied the mammoth and its equally mysterious time period, the Ice Age, for many ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD

  • The History of Life

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today. Beginning with an explanation of the controversies surrounding the birth of life itself, each following chapter ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book

    by Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney ...
    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    The mighty dinosaurs were the dominant life form on earth for millions of years. But catastrophe awaited. In what amounts to a geological blink of an eye, the dinosaurs disappeared. This fun-filled fact-book takes you deep into the world of dinosaurs!From Tyrannosaurs to Stegosaurs, The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book profiles numerous species, chronicling their time on Earth and exploring their roles ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD