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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a...
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The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
by Dougal Dixon Publisher Comments Ever since giant fossils were discovered in the Western world more than 200 years ago, dinosaurs, or 'terrible lizards' as they were named, have captured the public imagination. This seminal book brings together every important dinosaur find from the...
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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
by Douglas H. Erwin Publisher Comments Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95% of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 65 million years ago. How this happened remains a mystery....
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Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners
by Tom Koppel Publisher Comments For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering Strait and migrating south through an ice-free passage...
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Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology
by Stanley Hedeen Publisher Comments Shawnee legend tells of a herd of huge bison rampaging through the Ohio Valley, laying waste to all in their path. To protect the tribe, a deity slew these great beasts with lightning bolts, finally chasing the last giant buffalo into exile across the...
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Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science
by Phillip Manning Publisher Comments Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In...
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Wonderful Life : the Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (89 Edition)
by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Gould has brought to light one of the least known but most spectacular paleontological discoveries of all time... .a brilliant tapestry.-- Martin Gardner The Burgess Shale is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. In it are the remains of...
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What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
by George O. Poinar Jr. and Roberta Poinar Publisher Comments Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex — with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons — was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T...
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Dragons, Unicorns and Sea Serpents: A Classic Study of the Evidence for Their Existence
by Charles Gould Publisher Comments Did dragons actually wing their way across our planet? Did unicorns roam the earth? A geologist from the age of Darwin makes a case for a factual basis for these and other legendary monsters. Drawing upon sources from primitive cave paintings to...
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
by David Rains Wallace Publisher Comments Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the...
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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
by Douglas H. Erwin
Publisher Comments Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95% of all living species died out — a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 65 million years ago. How this happened remains a...
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
by Walter Alvarez Publisher Comments "A high drama of discovery and a wonderful adventure in science....It will become a classic". -- Los Angeles Times Book Review How was Tyrannosaurus rex toppled from the apex of creation? Sixty-five million years ago, there was an apocalyptic collision...
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Fossil Ecosystems of North America: A Guide to the Sites and Their Extraordinary Biotas
by John R Nudds Publisher Comments The fossil record affords a fascinating glimpse at past environments and the kinds of plants and animals that inhabited them. Some sites, for instance, contain nearly complete preserved records of ancient life. Fourteen of these remarkable fossil...
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Vertebrate Palaeontology (3RD 05 Edition)
by Michael J. Benton Synopsis Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research, including new material from North and South America...
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The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants
by Mee-mann (edt) Chang Publisher Comments No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has...
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Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology
by Jim Ottaviani Publisher Comments The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfight at O.K. Corral doesn't hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the Civil War, the (Re-)United States turned its attention to the unexplored territories between the Mississippi...
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Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution
by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments "At last, I found a trilobite. The rock simply parted around the animal, like some sort of revelation. I was left holding two pieces of rock--surely what I held was the textbook come alive. The long thin eyes of the trilobite regarded me and I returned...
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Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time
by Peter Douglas Ward Publisher Comments The time machine is one of the classic devices of science fiction, a source of endless wonder and inventiveness. In a book that transfers that sense of wonder and inventiveness to the realm of nonfiction, Peter Ward shows that paleontologists do indeed...
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The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
by Ann Gibbons Publisher Comments In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind? Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists...
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Bones of Contention
by Paul Chambers Synopsis Just as the fuss over Darwin's "Origin of Species" was getting really heated, an extraordinary fossil was found. It was apparently half bird and half reptile, and was hailed by Darwin's supporters as the missing link which proved that species could...
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