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The Great Human Diasporas : The History of Diversity and Evolution
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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9.5 |
The title The Great Human Diasporas implies that this book is a history of human migration, but it is much more. It is a readable, accessible summary of the lifework of Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who has done more than anyone else to revea
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Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould
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Current:
9.5 |
The story of how the Burgess Shale came to be, of its creatures, attempts to classify them, and where they fit into the scheme of evolution is one of the greatest stories--and one of the hottest controversies--in science. --This text re
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Crucible of Creation: Burgess Shale & the Rise of Animals
S. Conway Morris, Simon Conway Morris
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Current:
9.5 |
The Burgess Shale deposits, in western Canada, have joined the Galapagos Islands as a destination of choice for vacationing scientists and fans of evolutionary theory. The fame of these places is in part due to the unique flora and fauna (l
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The Complete Dinosaur
James O. Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman
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Current:
9.4 |
The 40-plus chapters in The Complete Dinosaur range from raw, cutting-edge science that drips with original data to surveys of the history of dinosaur collecting that are suitable for even the most jargon-shy readers. Editors James O
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Sudden Origins : Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
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Current:
9.4 |
Despite the title, Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't really explain how new species are born. Scientists have been struggling with that thorny problem ever since its publication, and the r
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Cradle of Life : The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils
J. William Schopf
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Current:
9.3 |
What if U.S. history began in 1963, and everything that happened before that year was shrouded in mystery? There would be plenty of events to study, but we wouldn't have a complete picture of the country's past. This is the analogy that pal
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The Amber Forest : A Reconstruction of a Vanished World
George O. Poinar, Roberta Poinar
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Current:
9.3 |
Amber is paleoecology's secret jewel--a natural resin capable of preserving plant and insect specimens without squashing them flat or ruining their natural color and posture. In The Amber Forest, George and Roberta Poinar offer a gli
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Alvarez
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Current:
9.3 |
One of the great mysteries is what happened to the dinosaurs, and it has taken great detective work to give us an answer. In T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, some brilliant, not to mention determined, scientists roam the world and seek
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The Bonehunters' Revenge : Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
David Rains Wallace
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Current:
9.1 |
It's sad but true--Jerry Springer's roots go deep in American culture. Even scientists of the Victorian era could jump on stage and start slugging, as we learn in The Bonehunters' Revenge. This smart, adventurous book by nature write
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The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
Robert T. Bakker
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Current:
9.1 |
The inside story of a scientific heresy that is scandalizing traditional paleontology, told by the unorthodox leader of the dinosaurian heretics and featuring over 200 original black-and-white drawings that show how dinosaurs lived. more]
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Forbidden Archeology's Impact
Michael A. Cremo
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Current:
9.1 |
Forbidden Archeology's Impact offers readers an inside look at how mainstream science reacts with ridicule, threats and intimidation to any challenge to its deeply held beliefs. R
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Discovering Fossils : How to Find and Identify Remains of the Prehistoric Past
Frank A. Garcia
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Current:
9.0 |
160 drawings 6 x 9 Complete beginners guide to fossil collecting Includes lesser-studied vertebrate fossils Detailed illustrations for identification and comparison Earlier life forms are buried all over the earths surfacein oceans, on moun
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Dinosaur Brains : Dealing With All Those Impossible People at Work
Albert J. Bernstein
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Current:
8.9 |
This book will help you deal with your employees and co-workers by giving you the keys to understanding the way their brains--and yours--work. Using the metaphor of the dinosaur brain, the authors detail a whole range of human responses dic
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In Search of Deep Time : Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
Henry Gee
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Current:
8.8 |
For centuries, biological scientists have been using the Linnean system of classification, organizing hierarchies of life forms by their perceived similarities and differences. In the late 20th century, some scientists have taken to using a
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The Complete Dinosaur
James O. Farlow
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Current:
8.6 |
The 40-plus chapters in The Complete Dinosaur range from raw, cutting-edge science that drips with original data to surveys of the history of dinosaur collecting that are suitable for even the most jargon-shy readers. Editors James O
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Basic Paleontology
Michael J. Benton
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Current:
8.5 |
With in-depth analysis of basic principles and all the main fossil groups, this fully illustrated text presents new and exciting research on the origin and history of life. Focuses on marine invertebrate palaeontology & biostratigraphy. Als
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The Mistaken Extinction : Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds
Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe
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Current:
8.3 |
Did the dinosaurs disappear, or did they merely take flight? In The Mistaken Extinction, two eminent paleontologists make a case for the continued existence of dinosaurs, at least in the form of some relatively diminutive descendants
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Dinosaur Lives : Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga (Harvest Book)
John R. Horner
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Current:
8.2 |
Dinosaurs fascinate and captivate us, yet we really know relatively little about them--and that only from a fragmentary fossil record painstakingly reconstructed by paleontologists. Dinosaur Lives offers a colorful first-person accou
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous : Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology
James Lawrence Powell
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Current:
8.1 |
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The Garden of Ediacara : Discovering the First Complex Life
Mark A. S. McMenamin
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8.1 |
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Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
Kevin Padian, Philip J. Currie
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Fossil Book : A Record of Prehistoric Life
Patricia Vickers Rich
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Current:
7.8 |
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Fossils : The Evolution and Extinction of Species
Niles Eldredge
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Current:
7.7 |
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After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
E. C. Pielou
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Current:
7.6 |
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."--more]
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101 Questions Answered About Dinosaurs
Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus
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7.5 |
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