Paleontology
epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:David Beerling
In his research on gases, Tyndall convincingly demonstrated that ‘perfectly colourless and invisible gases’ differed enormously in their abilities to absorb radiant heat. He correctly identified carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous ...
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Paleontology
February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Matthew T. Carrano & Kirk R. Johnson & Jay Matternes
Strangely Spiked Skulls Syndoceras was a type of protoceratid, a now-extinct group of hoofed mammals with bony horns like those of today’s pronghorn and cattle. The forked nose horn was ...
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Plants & Animals
February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Olivier Rieppel
The Genus Lariosaurus In his survey of the fossil biota of Monte San Giorgio, Kuhn-Schnyder illustrated a small lariosaur that was collected in 1971 in Val Mare near Meride, which ...
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Paleontology
February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Olivier Rieppel [Rieppel, Olivier]
A German Jew in America Richard Benedict Goldschmidt came, as he himself put it, “from an old German-Jewish family” (Stern, 1967:172; for a review of Goldschmidt’s life and work, see ...
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Reptiles & Amphibians
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall
The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...
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Paleontology
January 19,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]
1 “Note on Absolute Chronology of Human Evolution,” Science 123 (1956), pp. 924–26. 2 Embryos and Ancestors, rev. ed. (New York, Oxford, 1951), p. 93. MAN OF THE FUTURE There ...
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Wildlife
January 18,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]
II “Every man,” Thoreau once recorded in his journal, “tracks himself through life.” Thoreau meant that the individual in all his reading, his traveling, his observations, would follow only his ...
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Paleontology
January 18,2020 )
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 ...
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Dinosaurs
June 3,2017 )
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 ...
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Paleontology
May 21,2017 )
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 ...
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Paleontology
May 17,2017 )
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 ...
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Paleontology
May 17,2017 )
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 ...
( Category:
Paleontology
February 23,2017 )
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, ...
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Science & Religion
February 23,2017 )
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 ...
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Paleontology
February 21,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Martin Meredith
The feud between the Leakeys and Don Johanson had become even more intense in the 1980s. In his account of discovering Lucy, published in 1980, Johanson, relying on hearsay and ...
( Category:
Paleontology
March 25,2014 )
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