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Palaeontology
Paperback. Addresses question such as: how did Darwin use fossils to support his theory of evolution? What are 'living fossils'? Building on the scientific aspects, this book places fossils in a human context, highlighting their impact on philosophy, mythology, our concept of time, and popular culture. It provides an explanation of fossils as a phenomenon. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 table, 3 line drawings, numerous halftones and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192805041
- ISBN
- 9780192805041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback / so. Series: Sitzungsberichte Der Osterreichischen Akademie Der Wissensch. Num Pages: 65 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 3. Weight in Grams: 95.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 65
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662236840
- ISBN
- 9783662236840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.22
€ 70.22
Paperback. This volume details all British sites that have yielded fossil reptiles, describing in detail the fifty most important localities and providing an extensive bibliography of everything published on British Fossil reptiles since 1676. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PSAJ; RBX; WM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1055.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401042314
- ISBN
- 9789401042314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 131.75
€ 131.75
Hardback. The history of life is illustrated by fossils which give crucial information on the plants and animals of the past. This book presents a compilation of this mass of data. It documents the various families of protists, plants and animals and their ranges in geological time, with full details of first and last species for each family. Editor(s): Benton, Michael. Num Pages: 864 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Number of pages
- 864
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780412393808
- ISBN
- 9780412393808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 379.77
€ 379.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PSAJ; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780062410283
- ISBN
- 9780062410283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.85
€ 35.99
€ 30.85
"This book is on the emergence of mammals in Asia, based largely on new fossil finds throughout Asia and cutting-edge biostratigraphic and geochemical methods of dating the fossils and their geological substrate"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Wang, Xiaoming; Flynn, Lawrence J.; Fortelius, Mikael. Num Pages: 752 pages, 143 figures. BIC Classification: GBC; PSAJ; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 216 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2630.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 752
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231150125
- ISBN
- 9780231150125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.61€ 103.64
€ 129.61
€ 103.64
Hardback. Focusing on biofilms, this book combines knowledge on sub-aquatic and sub-aerial biofilms and their products. It describes how formation and degradation of minerals and rocks is achieved through biofilm formation on and in sediments, soils and rocks. It treats methods of study, and examples of Precambrian biofilms of an early Earth. Editor(s): Krumbein, Wolfgang E.; Paterson, David Maxwell (Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, Fife); Zavarzin, Georgii Aleksandrovich (Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia). Num Pages: 503 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1136.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 503
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015977
- ISBN
- 9781402015977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 253.93
€ 253.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 26 color illustrations. BIC Classification: PSVW5; RBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231171786
- ISBN
- 9780231171786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Taylor, D. W.; Hickey, Leo. Num Pages: 414 pages, 63 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSTD; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781475770421
- ISBN
- 9781475770421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 250.63
€ 250.63
Paperback / so. Series: Catalogus Fossilium Austriae. Num Pages: 75 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 4. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 75
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662375396
- ISBN
- 9783662375396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.49
€ 70.49
Hardcover. Presents the multidisciplinary results of underwater excavation in north Florida which yields the results of interactions between early Paleoindians and late Pleistocene megafauna. This book provides fundamental insights into two urgent issues: "The Peopling of the Americas"; and "The Extinction of the Megafauna". Editor(s): Webb, S. David. Series: Topics in Geobiology. Num Pages: 588 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2006th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402043253
- ISBN
- 9781402043253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 377.68
€ 377.68
Paperback. Provides an approach to the analysis of fossils and sediments for students of palaeontology and sedimentology, offering a practical field guide. This edition has been revised to take into account the changes and advances in the subject over the course of the 1990s. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582356252
- ISBN
- 9780582356252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.33
€ 78.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New preface by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165653
- ISBN
- 9780691165653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Paperback. An interdisciplinary study of dynamic biological changes associated with mass extinction events and their causal machanisms. It details most of the known mass extinction events through time, commenting on the complex earthbound or extraterrestrial causes for global biotic crises. Editor(s): Kauffman, Erle G.; Walliser, Otto H. Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences. Num Pages: 439 pages, 77 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PHVG; RBGK; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 439
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540526056
- ISBN
- 9783540526056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.83
€ 129.83
Piecing together evidence from both molecular biology and the fossil record, Archibald shows how science is edging closer to understanding exactly what happened during the mass extinctions near the K/T boundary and the radiation that followed. Num Pages: 120 pages, 41, 6 black & white illustrations, 12 black & white line drawings, 3 black & white illust. BIC Classification: PSAJ; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898051
- ISBN
- 9780801898051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.58
€ 85.58
Hardback. Comprising research papers in evolutionary and systematic biology, this text encompasses chapters concerning the recovery of information from living biota, and takes into account the limitations of sampling and the steady rate of contemporary extinction of taxa. Editor(s): Novacek, Michael J.; Wheeler, Quentin. Num Pages: 253 pages, 14 tables, 94 figures. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PST; PSV; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231074384
- ISBN
- 9780231074384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.88€ 76.74
€ 99.88
€ 76.74
Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms
. Ed(S): Hembree, Daniel I.; Platt, Brian F.;...
Paperback. Editor(s): Hembree, Daniel I.; Platt, Brian F.; Smith, Jon J. Series: Topics in Geobiology. Num Pages: 420 pages, 85 black & white illustrations, 45 colour illustrations, 43 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: PSV; RBX; RGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789402403251
- ISBN
- 9789402403251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 250.48
€ 250.48
Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms
. Ed(S): Hembree, Daniel I.; Platt, Brian F.;...
Hardback. Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms Editor(s): Hembree, Daniel I.; Platt, Brian F.; Smith, Jon J. Series: Topics in Geobiology. Num Pages: 420 pages, 85 black & white illustrations, 45 colour illustrations, 43 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: PSV; RBX; RGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 818.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401787208
- ISBN
- 9789401787208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 251.53
€ 251.53
Hardback. This photographically rich volume provides a synthetic overview of a wide sample of Lagerstatten from marine environments reaching back in time to the Precambrian, more than 500 million years ago. These occurrences of exceptional fossil preservation are providing scientists with a new source of evidence to understand how life has evolved in the Earth's oceans. Editor(s): Bottjer, David J.; Etter, Walter; Hagadorn, James W.; Tang, Carol M. Series: The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology. Num Pages: 424 pages, 78 photos, 22 maps, 30 illus. BIC Classification: PSPM; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102544
- ISBN
- 9780231102544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.29
€ 206.29
Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene
. Ed(S): Nehm, Ross H.; Budd, Ann F.
Hardback. Focuses attention on the richly fossiliferous Neogene stratigraphic sections of the Dominican Republic. This ttile provides an updated geological framework and a series of studies of evolutionary stasis and change among different lineages and associated ecological communities. Editor(s): Nehm, Ross H.; Budd, Ann F. Series: Topics in Geobiology. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJD; PSAJ; RBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402082146
- ISBN
- 9781402082146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.42
€ 195.42