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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover 
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Dinosaur Paleobiology by Stephen L. Brusatte Publisher Comments The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades. Scientific understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has advanced to such a degree that paleontologists often know more about 100-million... (read more) Your price: $140.00 New - Hardcover
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived--a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived by Clive Finlayson Publisher Comments Hailed by Dan Agin in The Huffington Post as "fascinating...electrifying...an apocalyptic vision that puts a chill down one's back," this provocative book offers a new perspective on the extinction of the Neanderthals. Today, we think of Neanderthals as... (read more) Your price: $21.50 New - Trade Paper
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Bonehunter's Revenge : Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age (99 Edition) by David Rains Wallace Publisher Comments When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the past century it has been known by many names -- the Bone War, the Fossil Feud -- but the tragic story of the... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge by Dan Oneill Publisher Comments The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since José de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods by Nicholas C. Fraser Publisher Comments This book is the first attempt to collate all the information known to date on the small vertebrates, e.g. mammals, crocodiles, turtles, lizards, frogs, salamanders, etc., and features contributions by experts with international reputations in their... (read more) Your price: $93.95 New - Trade Paper
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Missouri Handbook #4: The Common Fossils of Missouri by A. G. Unklesbay Publisher Comments The Missouri Handbooks are intended to bring the products of extensive research to the general public in nontechnical yet scholarly terms and in a convenient paperback format.... (read more) Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans by Christopher Beard Publisher Comments Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age by Adrian Lister Publisher Comments A dazzling visual record of one of Earth's most extraordinary species, this updated and revised edition of Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age integrates exciting new research to piece together the story of mammoths, mastodons, and their relatives, icons of... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Terrestrial Invasion: An Ecophysiological Approach to the Origins of Land Animals by Colin Little Publisher Comments The theme of this book is the invasion of land by animal lines which originated in aquatic environments. It brings together physiological and ecological evidence to show both the likely routes taken out of the sea by the aquatic ancestors of terrestrial... (read more) Your price: $54.50 New - Trade Paper
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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner Publisher Comments A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline by David Sepkoski Publisher Comments Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwins day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontologists... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History by Peter Ward Staff Pick "Written for a broad audience, Gorgon has more in common with John McPhee's geology books like Rising from the Plains than it does with scholarly bone catalogs. This is a book about people, frustration, curiosity, friendship, family, and change, all set... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution by Paul S. Martin Publisher Comments What caused the extinction of so many animals at or near the end of the Pleistocene? Was it overkill by human hunters, the result of a major climatic change or was it just a part of some massive evolutionary turnover? Questions such as these have plagued... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition (Life of the Past) by Michael K. Brett-surman Publisher Comments What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $85.00 New - Hardcover 
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The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons Publisher Comments This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - MP3 CD
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American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Vertebrate Pal) by Gary Haynes Publisher Comments Gary Haynes, archeologist and author of two related books, Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has spent nearly 30 years... (read more) Your price: $140.25 New - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life by Martin Brasier Publisher Comments It greatly puzzled Darwin that the most ancient rocks, those dating before the Cambrian period, seemed to be barren of fossils when he would expect them to be teeming with life. Decades of work by modern paleontologists have indeed brought us amazing... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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