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  • Carnivoran Evolution

    New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function

    Edited by Anjali Goswami, Anthony Friscia ...
    Series Book 1 - Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Bio
    Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million years, Carnivora has proven to be a model clade for addressing questions of broad evolutionary ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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    The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

    by Spencer Wells ...
    Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more ... Read more

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  • Survivors

    The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind (Text Only)

    by Richard Fortey ...
    This ebook edition does not include illustrations.An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In ‘Survivors’, acclaimed ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack

    And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

    by Ian Tattersall ...
    "An opinionated, authoritative, and delightfully provocative account of efforts to make sense of human fossil discoveries." — Kirkus Reviews , (starred review)"Superb science history." ― Booklist (starred review)In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition ... ... Read more

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  • The Fossil Hunter

    Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

    by Shelley Emling ...
    Series series MacSci
    At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was ... Read more

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  • Life on a Young Planet

    The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition

    by Andrew H. Knoll, Andrew H. Knoll ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a ... Read more

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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

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  • The Evolution Underground

    by Anthony J Martin ...
    Humans have "gone underground" for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on Earth. Many animal lineages alive now—including our own—only survived a cataclysmic meteorite strike 65 million years ago because they went underground.On a grander scale, the chemistry of the planet ... Read more

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  • Book 1. From the Origin to the hominids

    by Roland Maes ...
    Series Book 1 - The Achievements and the Days
    A Big Bang, i.e. a gigantic silent explosion occurred 13.5 billion years ago, with an unsustainable intensity of light and heat thrown in all directions. Light traveled during billions of years and cooled down, with the result that the Universe was getting cold, really cold. However, without cold, no galaxies, no stars and planets would form. A tiny planet formed 4.5 billion years ago, orbiting ... Read more

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  • The Talking Ape

    How Language Evolved

    by Robbins Burling ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
    In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other; and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself. The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears ... Read more

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  • The Story of Life in 25 Fossils

    Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution

    by Donald R. Prothero ...
    Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet.The twenty ... Read more

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