Paleontologia I Evolució

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Evolution
ISBN : CHI:54558053

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Paleontologia i evolució by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Evolution
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030030010856

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Paleontologia i evolució by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jordi Agust’,Mauricio Anton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231116411

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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi Agust’,Mauricio Anton Pdf

In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.

Author : John A. Van Couvering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521617024

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The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary by John A. Van Couvering Pdf

This book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.

Author : Donald R. Prothero,Scott E. Foss
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801887352

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The Evolution of Artiodactyls by Donald R. Prothero,Scott E. Foss Pdf

Artiodactyls are diverse and successful hoofed mammals, represented by nearly two hundred living species of pigs, peccaries, hippos, camels, deer, sheep, cattle, giraffes, and other even-toed ungulates. In the recent years, a tremendous amount of research has been conducted on this important order. The Evolution of Artiodactyls synthesizes this research into a single volume. The authors explore a variety of topics, including molecular phylogeny of terrestrial artiodactyls phylogenetic relationships of cetaceans to terrestrial artiodactyls, and the earliest artiodactyls—Diacodexidae, Dichobunidae, Homacodontidae, Leptochoeridae, and Raoellidae.

Author : Wes Gibbons,Teresa Moreno (Geologist)
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862391270

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The Geology of Spain by Wes Gibbons,Teresa Moreno (Geologist) Pdf

Author : David B Weishampel,Coralia-Maria Jianu
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421403502

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Transylvanian Dinosaurs by David B Weishampel,Coralia-Maria Jianu Pdf

The history and science of a cluster of dinosaurs found in the Hungarian region and the story of the aristocrat who discovered them. At the end of the time of the dinosaurs, Transylvania was an island in what was to become southeastern Europe. The island’s limited resources affected the size and life histories of its animals, resulting in a local dwarfism. For example, sauropods found on the island measured only six meters long, while their cousins elsewhere grew up to five times larger. Here, David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu present unique evolutionary interpretations of this phenomenon. The authors bring together the latest information on the fauna, flora, geology, and paleogeography of the region, casting these ancient reptiles in their phylogenetic, paleoecological, and evolutionary contexts. What the authors find is that Transylvanian dinosaurs experienced a range of unpredictable successes as they evolved. Woven throughout the detailed history and science of these diminutive dinosaurs is the fascinating story of the man who first discovered them, the mysterious twentieth-century paleontologist Franz Baron Nopcsa, whose name is synonymous with Transylvanian dinosaurs. Hailed by some as the father of paleobiology, it was Nopcsa alone who understood the importance of the dinosaur discoveries in Transylvania; their story cannot be told without recounting his. Transylvanian Dinosaurs strikes an engaging balance between biography and scientific treatise and is sure to capture the imagination of professional paleontologists and amateur dinophiles alike. “It is rare to find a book on dinosaurs so literate, well-written, and full of insight and synthesis—particularly when the dinosaurs are so unusual. The authors lay them out for us, situate them beautifully in time, space, and cultural history, and then reassemble them and their world using all the tools of modern science. The result is a tour de force.” —Kevin Padian, University of California Museum of Paleontology “A fine example of something I always try, but rarely succeed, to articulate to colleagues in paleontology, evolutionary biology, and geology who don’t work on dinosaurs. Dinosaurs, within the context of their ecosystems and paleogeography, can tell us many neat things about how evolution works over long time scales.” —Stephen Brusatte, Priscum

Author : Àngel Galobart,Maite Suñer,Begoña Poza
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253356222

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Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia by Àngel Galobart,Maite Suñer,Begoña Poza Pdf

Written for the general reader, this book is both a colorful introduction to the history and study of dinosaurs and an eye-opening survey of dinosaur discoveries in Spain. At the time of the dinosaurs, Iberia was in the process of becoming a peninsula of Continental Europe and looked very different than it does today. Now an area only slightly larger than Vermont and New Hampshire, Eastern Iberia contains one of the richest fossil records of Mesozoic vertebrates in Europe. This record spans an 80-million-year period that includes key moments in Earth's history, such as the extinction events at the Jurassic-Cretaceous and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundaries. Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia tells the story of Iberia's tumultuous geological history and presents a detailed synthesis of the region's dinosaur discoveries, with fact sheets and reconstructions of each species found there. This volume also describes the flora and fauna that made up the ancient ecosystems and explores the paleobiogeography of this dynamic region.

Author : Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Publisher : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8400081641

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Limnogeologia en España by Blas L. Valero-Garcés Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UCSC:32106009125326

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Human Evolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lars Werdelin,William Joseph Sanders
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520257214

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Cenozoic Mammals of Africa by Lars Werdelin,William Joseph Sanders Pdf

"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 : Ashraf M.T. Elewa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540266044

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Migration of Organisms by Ashraf M.T. Elewa Pdf

Why do some animals migrate? How does migration affect the gene pool? This book discusses these questions and more, in light of the high evolutionary costs and risks of mass movement. The editor presents a collection of topics explaining the migration of organisms through many examples of different groups of marine and non-marine organisms, from micro-invertebrates to large mammals.

Author : Miquel Carandell Baruzzi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004431508

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The Orce Man by Miquel Carandell Baruzzi Pdf

The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Reserach is a detailed account of a long controversy that shows the role of newspapers, politicians and scientists in how a scientific claim is belived in the late 20th century.

Author : Lorraine Locke,Simon Locke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443853736

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Knowledges in Publics by Lorraine Locke,Simon Locke Pdf

This book presents a series of cutting edge research studies in the field of public understanding of science, with particular focus on aspects of informal science education. In addition to providing up-to-date overviews of current thinking about how best to conceptualise the field, it offers a range of primary research studies examining informal public venues of science and mediations of scientific knowledge and representation. With contributions from some leading international researchers, the book provides discussions and case studies addressing the USA, UK and Europe, Africa and India, offering insight and assessment of key issues on a global footing. Challenging extant notions of science-public relations in terms of deficiency, engagement and knowledge transfer, the book taken as a whole argues for approaches that take seriously the multiplicity of publics and that recognise the centrality of social relations and social contexts to forms of knowledge and ways of knowing.

Author : Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674073166

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Apes and Human Evolution by Russell H. Tuttle Pdf

In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.