Biologie und Paläontologie

The Trilobite Collector's Guide

Autoren: Andy Secher
Vorwort: Richard Fortey, Melanie J. Hopkins

Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

Autor: David Rains Wallace
Illustrator: Ken Kirkland

The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 22, Band 22)

Herausgeber: Valentí Rull, Christopher Stevenson

Life on Our Planet: Accompanies the Landmark Netflix Series

Autor: Dr. Tom Fletcher

Understanding Human Evolution (Understanding Life)

Autor: Ian Tattersall

Dänemark: Fossile Schätze zwischen Nordjütland und Limfjord

Herausgeber: Redaktion Fossilien

Techniques for Virtual Palaeontology (New Analytical Methods in Earth and Environmental Science)

Autor: Mark Sutton

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems

Autoren: Paul Selden, John (School of Earth Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences The University of Manchester UK) Nudds

The Age of Reptiles - The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger`s Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale: The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale (Peabody Museum (YUP))

Autor: Rosemary Volpe

Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World (Life of the Past)

John Foster

T. rex and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library)

Walter Alvarez

Allgemeine Paläontologie (Geowissenschaften kompakt)

Michael Amler

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (MacSci)

Shelley Emling

Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils (Springer Geology)

Sreepat Jain

Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled and analysed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what paleobiologists do, in the field and in the lab. The many line drawings are unusually beautiful, and now can be compared to a wonderful collection of photographs in < I> Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek Briggs, one of Gould's students.

Burgess Shale animals have been called "a palaeontological Rorschach test", and not every geologist by any means agrees with Gould's thesis that they represent a "road not taken" in the history of life. Simon Conway Morris, one of the subjects of < I> Wonderful Life, has expressed his disagreement in < I> Crucible of Creation. < I> Wonderful Life was published in 1989, and there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian periods, with radical new ideas fighting for dominance. But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent-as in the movie < I> It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book takes its title-has become more accepted, in theories such as Ward and Brownlee's < I> Rare Earth hypothesis. And Gould's loving, detailed exposition of the labour it took to understand the Burgess Shale remains one of the best explanations of scientific work around. < I>-Mary Ellen Curtin

Understanding Human Evolution

Dr Thomas Bruce

Feuersteine, Hühnergötter

Rolf Reinicke

Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History

David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel

Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey (World Geomorphological Landscapes)

Paläontologie