Author: Bermudo Meléndez
Publisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN: 9788400077907
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 484

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Author: Florentino Ameghino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : es
Pages : 636

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Author: Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina)
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402066832
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Stratigraphy has come to be indispensable to nearly all branches of the earth sciences, assisting such endeavors as charting the course of evolution, understanding ancient ecosystems, and furnishing data pivotal to finding strategic mineral resources. This book focuses on traditional and innovative stratigraphy techniques and how these can be used to reconstruct the geological history of sedimentary basins and in solving manifold geological problems and phenomena.

Author: S. R. Schwalb
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 163220780X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Using modern biology and history to investigate a series of grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France. Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others. Alarmed rural communities—and their economies—were virtually held hostage by the marauder, and local officials and Louis XV deployed dragoons and crack wolf hunters from far-off Normandy and the King’s own court to destroy the menace. And with the creature’s reign of terror occurring at the advent of the modern newspaper, it can be said the ferocious attacks in the Gévaudan region were one of the world's first media sensations. Despite extensive historical documentation about this awesome predator, no one seemed to know exactly what it was. Theories abounded: Was it an exotic animal, such as a hyena, that had escaped from a menagerie? A werewolf? A wolf-dog hybrid? A new species? Some kind of conspiracy? Or, as was proposed by the local bishop, was it a scourge of God? To this day, debates on the true nature of La Bête, “The Beast,” continue. With historical illustrations, composite sketches by the author, on-the-scene modern-day photographs, autopsy analysis, and fictionalized accounts, Beast takes a fascinating look at all the evidence, using a mix of history and modern biology to advance a theory that could solve one of the most bizarre and unexplained killing sprees of all time: France’s infamous Beast of the Gévaudan.

Author: Florentino Ameghino
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : es
Pages : 1038

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Author: Gary D. Webster
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711371
Category : Crinoidea, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Author: Florentino Ameghino
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : es
Pages : 582

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Author: Bermudo Meléndez
Publisher:
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Category : Paleontology
Languages : es
Pages : 710

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Author: Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441166629
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an extensive and varied reception in different countries and disciplines. His theory had a revolutionary impact not only on biology, but also on other natural sciences and the new social sciences. The term 'Darwinism', already popular in Darwin's lifetime, ranged across many different areas and ideological aspects, and his own ideas about the implications of evolution for human cognitive, emotional, social and ethical capacities were often interpreted in a way that did not mirror his own intentions. The implications for religious, philosophical and political issues and institutions remain as momentous today as in his own time. This volume conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibit his far-reaching impact on our self- understanding as human beings.