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  • Our Ancient Youth

    A Perspective on Evolutionary Phylogeny and Ontogeny

    The major purpose of this monograph is to describe hominin fossils that are the juvenile representatives of the various species of our human ancestral past in the context of the disciplines of ontogeny and phylogeny. Ontogeny is the study of development through the lifespan, while phylogeny is the study of evolution. The book is appropriate largely for upper-level undergraduate and graduate ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • The Complete Dinosaur

    Series series Life of the Past
    A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can ... Read more

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  • Forerunners of Mammals

    Radiation' Histology, Biology

    Edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids.About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gaining Ground

    The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods

    Series series Life of the Past
    Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs

    The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium

    Series series Life of the Past
    Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species. ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Insects

    Awarded Best Reference by the New York Public Library (2004), Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE (2003), and AAP/PSP 2003 Best Single Volume Reference/Sciences by Association of American Publishers' Professional Scholarly Publishing Division, the first edition of Encyclopedia of Insects was acclaimed as the most comprehensive work devoted to insects. Covering all aspects of insect anatomy, ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Herpetology

    An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

    This third edition, now fully revised and updated by two of Dr. Zug's colleagues, provides herpetology students and amateur reptile and amphibian keepers with the latest taxonomy and species developments from around the world. Herpetology is a rapidly evolving field, which has contributed to new discoveries in many conceptual areas of biology. The authors build on this progress by updating all ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • The Insects

    An Outline of Entomology

    Insects represent over half of the planet’s biological diversity. This popular textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary diversity, and places entomology central to the theory and practice of evolutionary and ecological studies.Fully revised, this fifth edition opens with a chapter concerning the popular side of insect studies, including insects in citizen science, zoos ... Read more

    $96.00 USD

  • Dinosaur Paleobiology

    Series Book 2 - TOPA Topics in Paleobiology
    The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades. Scientific understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has advanced to such a degree that paleontologists often know more about 100-million-year-old dinosaurs than many species of living organisms. This book provides a contemporary review of dinosaur science intended for students, ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs

    Understanding the Life of Giants

    Series series Life of the Past
    Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials science to animal nutrition and paleontology went in search of the answers to these questions. ... Read more

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  • Herpetology

    An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

    The fourth edition of the textbook Herpetology covers the basic biology of amphibians and reptiles, with updates in nearly every conceptual area. Not only does it serve as a solid foundation for modern herpetology courses, but it is also relevant to courses in ecology, behavior, evolution, systematics, and morphology. Examples taken from amphibians and reptiles throughout the world make this book ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

    How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques and approaches across a range of fields—work spanning multiple levels of biological organization from DNA sequences to ... Read more

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