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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution

by Jack Horner & James Gorman

A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur

Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology...


Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters

by Patricia Pierce

Mary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology - the first woman palaeontologist to make important discoveries. After her death, many of her discoveries were credited to the...


Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record

by Michael J. Benton & David A. T. Harper

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques,...


Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation

by Kevin Padian & Ellen-Thérèse Lamm

The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly important analytical tool for understanding the life history of ancient organisms. This book provides an essential primer...


Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

by Richard Fortey

By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the...


Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace , 'On the Tendency of Species to

by Noel Thompson

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before...


Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man, 1863

by Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction...


Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives

by Patricia G. Gensel & Dianne Edwards

What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating...


Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure

by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli & Zhe-Xi Luo

The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them breathtakingly complete, have been found in nearly all parts of the globe...


Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

by Donald R. Prothero

Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark...


Geology & Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume I, 1836

by William Buckland

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human...


On the Origin of Species, 1859

by Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species caused an uproar when it was first published in 1859. Darwin's theory was that species had evolved from simpler organisms by natural selection acting upon the variability of populations....


The First Human

by Ann Gibbons

In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive...


The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

by Josh Smith & William Nothdurft

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...


Chinese Fossil Vertebrates

Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe

by Jordi Agustí & Mauricio Anton

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...


Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

by Xiaoming Wang, Richard Tedford & Mauricio Anton

Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford combine their research with Mauricio Antón's impeccable reconstructions to present a remarkable portrait of canids over the past 40 million years. Wang and Tedford cull...


Embryos in Deep Time: The Rock Record of Biological Development

by Marcelo R. Sánchez

How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts...


Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

by Kate Wong & Donald Dr Johanson

“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other...