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1	Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History more books like this by Stephen Jay Gould "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 an ancient sea that nurtured more varieties of life than can be found in all of our modern ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.55! \| first editions
2	Fossils more books like this by Cyril Alexander Walker, David Ward An updated guide to identifying fossils, designed to be clear, accurate and easy-to-use. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £10.92! \| first editions
3	Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution more books like this by Richard Fortey This is is a trilobito-centric view of the world, unravelling the history of the crustacean-like animals which dominated the seas for three hundred million years. These arthropods witnessed continents move, mountain chains elevated and eroded; they survived ice ages and volcanic eruptions, evolving and adapting to their environment. They watched ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £8.10! \| first editions
4	The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples more books like this by Tim Flannery Flannery, the author of THROWIM WAY LEG, chronicles the epic, 65-million-year evolution of the North American continent. Beginning with the apocryphal striking of an asteroid and following through to the landing of Columbus, Flannery covers everything from climate, species, and megafauna to migration, extinction, and human impact. a New York Times ... see all copies from £4.77! new only from £7.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Life Story more books like this by Virginia Lee Burton In this title the growth of life on earth is shown inventively in text and pictures. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £9.24! \| first editions
6	The Earth Through Time more books like this by Harold L Levin Before the age of dinosaurs, and interesting group of reptiles known as pelycosaurs roamed the Earth. Many were similar in general form to large lizards. There were also bizarred-looking pelycosaurs exemplified by the late Permian reptile Dimetrodon. The erect sail is the hallmark of Dimetrodon. The sail probably helped the reptile regulate its ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £14.15! \| first editions
7	Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life more books like this by Tim Haines, Paul Chambers An illustrated guide to 112 beasts dating from the Cambrian Period to the Pleistocene Epoch, with profiles on physical characteristics, lifestyle, habitat, behavior and distribution across prehistoric earth. A companion to a new Discovery Channel series. see all copies from £8.71! new only from £10.32! \| first editions
8	In the Blink of an Eye more books like this by Andrew Parker Oxford University research fellow Parker proposes his own theory about what happened 550 million years ago, when life forms began to populate the planet in droves. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE offers up the "Light Switch" explanation of the Cambrian Explosion, arguing that life flourished once creatures developed the sense of sight. see all copies from £2.65! new only from £6.11! \| first editions
9	When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time more books like this by Michael Benton There have been five big mass extinctions in the history of the Earth. One 65 million years ago wiped out the dinosaurs, but the greatest of all happened around 251 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period. In this cataclysm at least 90 per cent of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a halt. What ... see all copies from £5.50! new only from £12.23! \| first editions
10	The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction more books like this by Dr. Robert T Bakker, Ph.D. For over a century, dinosaurs have been thought of as plodding, dim-witted giant lizards too awkward and ill-equipped to survive the ravages of environmental change. Bakker offers startling new evidence destined to forever alter the perception of the much-maligned monsters, depicting them as never before imagined: hot-blooded, amazingly agile, and ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £17.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago more books like this by Professor Douglas H Erwin Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 per cent 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. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that ... see all copies from £6.49! new only from £12.94! \| first editions
12 view cover	Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology more books like this by Professor Donald R Prothero This is the first text to combine both paleontology and paleobiology. Traditional textbooks treat these separately, despite the recent trend to combine them in teaching. It bridges the gap between purely theoretical paleobiology and purely descriptive invertebrate paleontology books. The text is targeted at undergraduate geology and biology majors ... see all copies from £11.57! new only from £62.72!
13 view cover	The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi more books like this by William J Broad A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author describes how a team of scientists, working from subtle clues scattered throughout the ancient literature, as well as from the latest findings in geology, uncovered scientific evidence to explain the Oracle of Delphi's powers. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us about Our Future more books like this by Professor Peter D Ward According to paleontologist Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in history have been brought on by climate change--the same global warming that occurs today. The author argues that events in the past can give valuable information about the future of our planet. see all copies from £7.51! new only from £8.02!
15 view cover	Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor more books like this by Dr. Donald Johanson, James Shreeve Donald Johanson discovered Lucy, the most famous and one of the most complete of hominid remains, in 1979. His controversial interpretation of the remains as representing an ancestor to all subsequent hominid species, including our own, and his bestselling "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind" (1981), established him as one of the most famous living ... see all copies from £2.65! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Fossil more books like this by Dr. Paul D Taylor A guide to fossils, which are the remains or impression of prehistoric plants and animals hardened in rock. The book traces the history of life on Earth, moving from plants, fish, dinosaurs and mammals, right up to the amazing fossil remains of early people. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs more books like this by David E Fastovsky, Professor David B Weishampel This is a comprehensive treatment of dinosaurs designed to be used mainly as a textbook for students in first or second year undergraduate courses, although non-specialists are also sure to find the book of great interest. Nonetheless, it is unique in that it truly portrays dinosaurs from a specialist viewpoint. It is the only comprehensive text ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £31.40! \| first editions
18 view cover	Fossils : the evolution and extinction of species. more books like this by Niles Eldredge One of the leading paleontologists of our time, examines what the fossilized remains of earth's ancient flora and fauna reveal about mass extinction and the origin of the species, and comes up with a revolutionary new theory that augments Darwin's. Enhanced with works by Murray Alcosser, one of America's most distinguished still-life nature ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £13.34! \| first editions
19 view cover	Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep more books like this by Mike Everhart Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park--"nothing can prepare you for "Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep," an amazing plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a merciless ... see all copies from £6.76! new only from £7.18!
20 view cover	Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time more books like this by Edwin Harris Colbert This updated edition investigates backboned animals during approximately 500 million years of evolution. It traces the history of each major vertebrate group from its origin to its extinction or to the emergence of the next, more advanced group. Drawings and illustrations are included and new chapters have been added on aerial reptiles and birds. see all copies from £1.53! new only from £21.84! \| first editions
21 view cover	Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution more books like this by E N K Clarkson Fossils are of great value in interpreting the sedimentary environments in which they lived and the patterns and processes in the history of life. Their role in biostratigraphy is as important now as it ever was. In all respects palaeontology is is a vigorous and expanding subject, and will remain integral to geology for the foreseeable future. ... see all copies from £2.48! new only from £33.43!
22 view cover	The Dinosauria more books like this by Professor David B Weishampel (Editor), Peter Dodson (Editor), Halszka Osmolska (Editor) When the "The Dinosauria" was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have ... see all copies from £10.21! new only from £28.22! \| first editions
23 view cover	T. rex and the crater of doom more books like this by Walter Alvarez Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.46! \| first editions
24 view cover	Prehistoric Journey: A History of Life on Earth more books like this by Kirk R Johnson, Richard Stucky A collection of eight dioramas that depict places where important fossils were found. see all copies from £6.49! new only from £9.55!
25 view cover	Future Evolution: An Illuminated History of Life to Come more books like this by Peter Ward, Alexis Rockman (Illustrator) Everyone wonders what tomorrow holds, but what will the real future look like? Not decades or even hundreds of years from now, but thousands or millions of years into the future. Will our species change radically? Or will we become builders of the next dominant intelligence on Earth- the machine? These and other seemingly fantastic scenarios are ... see all copies from £21.65! new only from £130.44!

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