epub |eng | 2008-06-02 | Author:Dr. Phil Manning

CHAPTER EIGHT THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH “I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.” —Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier DAKOTA PRESENTED MANY PROBLEMS for ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

THE SMITHIAN/SPATHIAN EXTINCTION The Smithian and Spathian are the third and fourth stages of the Early Triassic respectively, and their boundary, around 2 million years after the Permo-Triassic boundary, marks ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Dean Falk

THE MICROCEPHALIC QUESTION And focused on the microcephalic question they were. In various news stories about our report on LBI’s brain, skeptical scientists reiterated their views that LBI was a ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-16 | Author:Shelley Emling

Mary’s discovery would eventually be called a Dimorphodon, the earliest type of Jurassic pterosaur. It was the first pterosaur—or “winged lizard”—ever discovered outside of Germany. Like all pterosaurs, Mary’s batch ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Hardy, Gavin & Totelin, Laurence [Hardy, Gavin]

Dioscorides compared plant leaves to those of mastic (schinos, Pistacia lentiscus L.) on two further occasions (MM 1.96: lime tree; 4.49: stinking tutsan); he used the size of the plane ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Michael A. Cremo [Cremo, Michael A.]

3.4.6.1. Letter to Ina Belderis, June 13, 1995. Thank you for your thoughtful review of my book The Hidden History of the Human Race, which appeared in the April/May issue ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Cremo, Michael A. [Cremo, Michael A.]

26 Folk Archeological Traditions in India On July 2, 2005, I flew overnight from Los Angeles to London’s Gatwick airport. I took a Thameslink train from Gatwick to the Thameslink ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer [Meyer, Stephen C.]

16 Other Post-Neo-Darwinian Models When Stephen Jay Gould was first wrestling with the question of how new forms of animal life could have arisen so quickly in the fossil record, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Emanuele Serrelli & Nathalie Gontier

4.3 Evolutionary Patterns The history of life on Earth is characterized by a combination of unique and repeated events. An evolutionary pattern is an empirically discernible regularity in the history ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-27 | Author:Lydia Pyne

Painted casts of Peking Man skull at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory on a laboratory bench. From Paramount News film, early 1930s. (Film courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brian Switek [Switek, Brian]

Seven Dinosaur Feathers Sometimes I get a little selfish about dinosaur skeletons. As thrilled as I am that museum dinosaur exhibits are so well attended, the stampeding hordes of schoolchildren ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Donald R. Prothero

SEE IT FOR YOURSELF! The skeleton of Kronosaurus queenslandicus is still the centerpiece of the main hall of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Australia, ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Lisa Randall [Randall, Lisa]

STRIKING PAYDIRT: REDISCOVERING THE CRATER Nonetheless, researchers at the time knew that even with all the evidence discovered in the 1980s and the increased understanding of the implications that a ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Ian Tattersall [Tattersall, Ian]

East African hominid fossils discussed in this chapter. Left: “Lucy” skeleton, MNE AL 288, from Hadar, Ethiopia, assigned to Australopithecus afarensis. Upper right: Bodo cranium from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, first ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-21 | Author:Andrew H. Knoll [Knoll, Andrew H.]

Figure 9.2. A spiny microfossil found commonly in Doushantuo cherts and phosphatic rocks. Such fossils are thought to be the reproductive spores of eukaryotic organisms. Fossil is 250 microns in ...