The author compares five primitive life forms from the Burgess Shale of over 500,000,000 years ago to five new technologies invented or developed in the first decade of the twentieth century ...more on ebook "The First Decade of the Twentieth C..."

In this volume John Murray investigates the ecological processes that control the distribution, abundance, and species diversity of benthic foraminifera in environments ranging from marsh to ...more on ebook "Ecology and Applications of Benthic..."

extinction is the ultimate fate of all biological species - over 99% of the species that have ever inhabited the earth are now extinct. The long fossil record of life provides scientists wit ...more on ebook "Extinctions in the History of Life..."

Including twenty-two photographs and more than fifty drawings of these strikingly beautiful early life forms, this book presents a mesmerizing documentary of a major scientific discovery. Du ...more on ebook "The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering..."

Concern about the effects of global change on our planet's future has driven much current research into the last few thousand years of earth history. In contrast, this volume takes a much lo ...more on ebook "Biotic Response to Global Change..."

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya De ...more on ebook "The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt..."