Paläontologie

This 2-volume set provides a state-of-the-art study of the fossil record and taxonomy of the main vertebrate groups from Greece. Greece stands between 3 continents and its vertebrate fossil record is of great importance for paleontological and evolutionary studies in Europe, Asia and Africa. Fossils from classic, world-famous localities (e.g., Pikermi, Samos) form an essential part of the collections of the most important museums in the world and have been studied by numerous scientists. Recent paleontological research led to the discovery and study of numerous new sites. The volumes contain a taxonomic review of all named and identified taxa, their taxonomic history and current status, as well as historical, phylogenetic and biogeographic information. Volume 1 contains a synopsis of the fossil record and taxonomy of important groups of vertebrates represented in the fossil record of Greece. The volume deals with some of the early splitting clades, including the basal and enigmatic conodonts and basal tetrapods like fishes, amphibians, and reptiles like lizards, snakes, crocodiles, turtles and tortoises. The second part of the volume deals with basal mammalian clades, some of which are quite characteristic for the fossil record of the country: aardwarks, hyraxes, proboscideans, elephants and mammoths, sea cows, rodents, and lagomorphs. The volume ends with special chapters on the primate fossil record of the country, including some of our most recent and distant relatives.

In this continuing story of Greg and Doc, a young boy turned fossil hunter and an optometrist, author Gregory Hagenston tells the story of Makoshika, Montana's largest state park. Drawing on the real-life Dr. Hiatt's rich correspondence and news clippings about this "geological Disneyland," Greg and Doc, Two Souls Surrounded by Badlands: Part II Makoshika is a book like no other-a biography of a stunning place millions of years in the making.

This volume sheds new light on the marine fauna and geological setting of the Tjörnes Sequence, North Iceland, which is a classic site for the Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the North Atlantic region. Readers will discover descriptions of new data collected by the editors over a period of over three decades on marine faunal assemblages and sedimentology available for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, as well as the tectonic and stratigraphical relationships on Tjörnes Peninsula. The book includes a comprehensive account of all the collections of marine fossil invertebrate macrofossils and foraminifera known to the editors from the Tjörnes Sequence. It is expected to elucidate sedimentological and faunal changes from relatively stable Pliocene conditions to highly variable and periodically harsh climatic conditions of recurring Quaternary glaciations. The distribution, recent or fossil, of various species is recorded and pertinent ecological and biological features are also discussed. The Tjörnes Sequence records the Neogene migration of Pacific species into the North Atlantic. Researchers in geology, climate science, environmental science and earth science will find this book particularly valuable.

"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." —New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth." —Minneapolis Star TribuneA decade in the making, Fossil Men is a scientific detective story played out in anatomy and the natural history of the human body: the first full-length account of the discovery of a startlingly unpredicted human ancestor more than a million years older than LucyIt is the ultimate mystery: where do we comefrom? In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White uncovered a set ofancient bones in Ethiopia’s Afar region. Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated theresulting skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus—nicknamed“Ardi”—was an astounding 4.4 million years old, more than a million years olderthan the world-famous “Lucy.” The team spent the next 15 years studying thebones in strict secrecy, all while continuing to rack up landmark fossildiscoveries in the field and becoming increasingly ensnared in bitter disputeswith scientific peers and Ethiopian bureaucrats. When finally revealed to thepublic, Ardi stunned scientists around the world and challenged a half-centuryof orthodoxy about human evolution—how we started walking upright, how weevolved our nimble hands, and, most significantly, whether we were descendedfrom an ancestor that resembled today’s chimpanzee. But the discovery of Ardi wasn’t just a leap forward inunderstanding the roots of humanity--it was an attack on scientific conventionand the leading authorities of human origins, triggering an epic feud about theoldest family skeleton.In Fossil Men, acclaimed journalist Kermit Pattison brings usa cast of eccentric, obsessive scientists, including White, an uncompromisingperfectionist whose virtuoso skills in the field were matched only by hispropensity for making enemies; Gen Suwa, a Japanese savant whose deep expertiseabout teeth rivaled anyone onEarth; Owen Lovejoy, a onetime creationist-turned-paleoanthropologist withradical insights into human locomotion; Berhane Asfaw, who survivedimprisonment and torture to become Ethiopia’s most senior paleoanthropologist; Don Johanson,the discoverer of Lucy, who had a rancorous falling out with the Ardi team; andthe Leakeys, for decades the most famous family in paleoanthropology. Based on a half-decade of research in Africa,Europe and North America, Fossil Men is not only a brilliant investigation into theorigins of the human lineage, but the oldest of human emotions: curiosity,jealousy, perseverance and wonder. 

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Lettre à monsieur le conseiller et professeur Crell ou Observations sur le Catalogue methodique et raisonné de la collection de fossiles de Mlle E. de Raab, par M. de Born . Par le prince Dimitri de Gallitzin, ...Date de l'édition originale: 1797Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

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With this collection of essays, Anthony J. Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these traces, both modern and fossil, tell us. Readers will learn how these traces enabled geologists to discover that the remains of ancient barrier islands still exist on the lower coastal plain of Georgia, showing the recession of oceans millions of years ago. First, Martin details a solid but approachable overview of Georgia barrier island ecosystems--maritime forests, salt marshes, dunes, beaches--and how these ecosystems are as much a product of plant and animal behavior as they are of geology. Martin then describes animal tracks, burrows, nests, and other traces and what they tell us about their makers. He also explains how trace fossils can document the behaviors of animals from millions of years ago, including those no longer extant. Next, Martin discusses the relatively scant history--scarcely five thousand years--of humans on the Georgia coast. He takes us from the Native American shell rings on Sapelo Island to the cobbled streets of Savannah paved with the ballast stones of slave ships. He also describes the human introduction of invasive animals to the coast and their effects on native species. Finally, Martin's epilogue introduces the sobering idea that climate change, with its resultant extreme weather and rising sea levels, is the ultimate human trace affecting the Georgia coast. Here he asks how the traces of the past and present help us to better predict and deal with our uncertain future.

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Draghi, ciclopi, giganti, unicorni, fenici. Quando gli antichi si imbattevano in resti di animali sconosciuti, subito li attribuivano a creature fantastiche. Poi gli scienziati hanno dimostrato che si trattava solo di fantasie ancestrali: i mostri non esistono, oggi lo sappiamo tutti; eppure la spiegazione che gli studiosi hanno dato di quei reperti è stata addirittura più terrificante: prima di noi, una miriade di altri viventi abitava il nostro pianeta, ma ora non ci sono più. Sulla Terra, infatti, nulla è per sempre. Nella "Malinconia del mammut" Massimo Sandal racconta la grande storia delle estinzioni, da quella del Permiano fino alla «sesta», che ci coinvolgerà, ciò che significa per noi e per il nostro rapporto con la natura, e i modi in cui stiamo provando a riportare in vita specie scomparse da anni o addirittura secoli. Racconta di terre scomparse, oceani di fuoco e meteoriti precipitati dal cosmo, ere abitate da microscopici organismi, piante spaventose e animali straordinari come il dodo, il tilacino, la tigre dai denti a sciabola, i dinosauri. Come in un gigantesco museo di scienze naturali in cui tutto d'improvviso torna in vita, assistiamo alla resurrezione di uno stambecco dei Pirenei scomparso cento anni fa attraverso campioni di cellule conservate in azoto liquido, alla «costruzione» di un antico uro per mezzo di incroci tra specie simili a quella estinta, all'inaugurazione di un vero e proprio Jurassic Park in Russia e ai tentativi ambiziosi, talvolta folli, di riportare in vita il nostro animale preistorico preferito: il mammut, fonte di ispirazione per scrittori e artisti, idolo dei bambini e oggetto dei desideri degli scienziati. Nell'ultima sala di questo bizzarro museo ci siamo noi, la specie dominante e invincibile; oppure soltanto la prossima a scomparire. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

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Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerika's. IV. ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1883.Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquitäten erhältlich. Hansebooks verlegt diese Bücher neu und trägt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch für die Zukunft bei.

Note sur quelques ossements fossiles de "Paloeotherium", recueillis dans le département de la Gironde, par M. Billaudel, ...Date de l'édition originale: 1829Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr