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Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Kate E. Zeigler,Peter E. Kondrashov
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Wang Naiwen,Jürgen Remane
Publisher : VSP
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9067642746
This volume presents the proceedings of Symposium I "Stratigraphy" of the 30th International Geological Congress at Beijing. The proceedings aim to present a view of contemporary geology and should be of interest to researchers in the geological sciences.
Author : Scott L. Wing
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813723698
Author : Thom Holmes
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0816059632
Highlights fundamental principles of scientific inquiry while detailing the early evolution of birds and mammals.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615301942
Its constant evolution over the millennia since its inception has made the Earth a dynamic entity, subject to numerous climactic and environmental forces that are forever changing this planet. In its most recent stage, the planet has seen an incredible diversification in plant and animal life, with the most prominent development of the Cenozoic era being the emergence of mammals. This book examines our most immediate ancestors and the geologic, geographic, and environmental factors that helped make their primacy inevitable.
Author : Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801884721
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Author : Michael O. Woodburne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231503785
This book places into modern context the information by which North American mammalian paleontologists recognize, divide, calibrate, and discuss intervals of mammalian evolution known as North American Land Mammal Ages. It incorporates new information on the systematic biology of the fossil record and utilizes the many recent advances in geochronologic methods and their results. The book describes the increasingly highly resolved stratigraphy into which all available temporally significant data and applications are integrated. Extensive temporal coverage includes the Lancian part of the Late Cretaceous, and geographical coverage includes information from Mexico, an integral part of the North American fauna, past and present.
Author : Xiaoming Wang,Lawrence J. Flynn,Mikael Fortelius
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231520829
Fossil Mammals of Asia, edited by and with contributions from world-renowned scholars, is the first major work devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia. This volume employs cutting-edge biostratigraphic and geochemical dating methods to map the emergence of mammals across the continent. Written by specialists working in a variety of Asian regions, it uses data from many basins with spectacular fossil records to establish a groundbreaking geochronological framework for the evolution of land mammals. Asia's violent tectonic history has resulted in some of the world's most varied topography, and its high mountain ranges and intense monsoon climates have spawned widely diverse environments over time. These geologic conditions profoundly influenced the evolution of Asian mammals and their migration into Europe, Africa, and North America. Focusing on amazing new fossil finds that have redefined Asia's role in mammalian evolution, this volume synthesizes information from a range of field studies on Asian mammals and biostratigraphy, helping to trace the histories and movements of extinct and extant mammals from various major groups and all northern continents, and providing geologists with a richer understanding of a variety of Asian terrains.
Author : Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231504614
This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entrée to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils.
Author : Federico Agnolin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031562662
Author : Thomas Defler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319984490
This book takes a non-technical approach in covering the evolution of South American mammalian fauna throughout geological history, and discusses how South America has changed due to mammalian invasions. Unlike other works on the subject, this book attempts to answer several crucial questions that often go unmentioned together in one cohesive monograph. What was the fauna like before the American interchange? What were the origins of the now-extinct groups when northern species arrived and out-competed them? How did the modern mammalian fauna come into being with such disparate animal groups? This information is given from a historical perspective throughout the book's 15 chapters, and is presented in an easily graspable fashion by mostly avoiding technical language. The book is written for academics, scientists and scholars engaged in paleontology, zoology and evolutionary biology, but may also appeal to a larger audience of general readers interested in mammalian evolution. The book begins with an introduction, describing the tools necessary to interpret the evolutionary history of South American mammals in geological terms and some of the early people who helped found South American mammalian paleontology. Chapter 2 describes the Mesozoic first mammals of Gondwana and what we are learning about them, dominant before the K/T extinction event. Then chapters 3 through 8 cover the Cenozoic, or "Age of Mammals", highlighting the major mammalian groups of South America that replaced the earlier mammals of Gondwana. These groups include the marsupials, native ungulates, the xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters, sloths), the caviomorphs (rodents), and the platyrrhine monkeys. Chapters 9 and 10 address the Antarctic La Meseta fossils and the Colombian La Venta fossil faunal assemblages. Chapter 11 discusses the neotropical mammals that invaded the Caribbean Islands, and illustrates the influence South America has had on adjacent faunas. Chapter 12 describes the origin of the Amazon River and the role it has played in the evolution of the mammals and other flora and fauna. Chapter 13 tells the story of the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), and chapter 14 follows this up with a discussion of the Pleistocene mammal communities and their eventual extinction. Chapter 15 concludes the text by discussing the modern mammals of South America, and how despite the extensive Pleistocene extinctions there is still a lot of mammalian diversity in South America.
Author : Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska,Richard L. Cifelli,Zhe-Xi Luo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231119184
Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Author : Lars Werdelin,William Joseph Sanders
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520257214
"This impressively comprehensive volume is a long-awaited and worthy successor to the now outdated 1978 classic, Evolution of African Mammals. A must-have reference work for everyone interested in mammalian evolution." David Pilbeam, Harvard University and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology --
Author : Thomas E. Williamson
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Geology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Thomas M. Bown,Kenneth David Rose
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813722436