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ISBN: 9788460887737
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Paleontologia i Evolució Memòria Especial
Author: The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary
Author: John A. Van CouveringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521617022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.
Human Evolution
Author: European Neogene Mammal Chronology
Author: Everett H. LindsayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489925139
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
During the last ZO years great progress has been achieved in our understanding of both earth history and vertebrate evolution. The result is that climatic/tectonic events in earth history can now be placed in a more precise and global time frame, that permit their evaluation as abiotic causal factors which might trigger extinction and dispersal events in vertebrate history. Great strides have also been made in genetics and cell biology, providing new insight into phylogenetic relationships among many vertebrates. These new data, along with data on chronologie resolution of earth history, provide tests of previous interpretations regarding ancestral-descendant relationships based solely on the fossil record. It is fitting and proper that a volume on European Neogene mammal chronology is produced at this time, to ensure that new interpretations of vertebrate evolution and chronology are based on the most accurate and current data. Vertebrate paleon tologists believe that the fossil record is the only secure data for measuring the actual course and tempo of vertebrate evolution. Knowledge of the fossil record must keep pace with advances in other areas of science so that inferences on vertebrate evolu tion are accurate and meaningful.
Smilodon
Author: Lars WerdelinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425564
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The consummate guide to the ultimate sabertooth. Few animals spark the imagination as much as the sabertooth cat Smilodon. With their incredibly long canines, which hung like fangs past their jaws, these ferocious predators were first encountered by humans when our species entered the Americas. We can only imagine what ice age humans felt when they were confronted by a wild cat larger than a Siberian tiger. Because Smilodon skeletons are perennial favorites with museum visitors, researchers have devoted themselves to learning as much as possible about the lives of these massive cats. This volume, edited by celebrated academics, brings together a team of experts to provide a comprehensive and contemporary view of all that is known about Smilodon. The result is a detailed scientific work that will be invaluable to paleontologists, mammalogists, and serious amateur sabertooth devotees. The book • covers all major aspects of the animal's natural history, evolution, phylogenetic relationships, anatomy, biomechanics, and ecology • traces all three Smilodon species across both North and South America • brings together original, unpublished research with historical accounts of Smilodon's discovery in nineteenth-century Brazil The definitive reference on these iconic Pleistocene mammals, Smilodon will be cited by researchers for decades to come. Contributors: John P. Babiarz, Wendy J. Binder, Charles S. Churcher, Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Robert S. Feranec, Therese Flink, James L. Knight , Margaret E. Lewis, Larry D. Martin, H. Gregory McDonald, Julie A. Meachen, William C. H. Parr, Ashley R. Reynolds. Kevin L. Seymour, Christopher A. Shaw, C. S. Ware, Lars Werdelin, H. Todd Wheeler, Stephen Wroe, M. Aleksander Wysocki
Bryozoan Studies 2004
Author: Hugo MoyanoPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1134192118
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A selection of papers presented at the 13th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held in Concepcin Chile in January 2004 and hosted by the Universidad de Concepcin and Universidad Catlica de la Santma Concepcin. The topics presented in this volume reflect the diversity of studies on bryozoa with authors from 18
Limnogeologia en España
Author: Blas L. Valero-GarcésPublisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN: 9788400081645
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Balkan Biodiversity
Author: Huw I. GriffithsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402028533
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This is the first attempt to synthesize current understanding of biodiversity in the great European hot spot. A diverse group of international researchers offers perspective on biodiversity at the level of the gene, species and ecosystem, including contributions on temporal change. Biological groups include plants, mammals, spiders and humans, cave-dwelling organisms, fish, aquatic invertebrates and algae.
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