Bringing Fossils to Life
An Introduction to Paleobiology
One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology, and population genetics, bridging the gap between purely theoretical paleobiological textbooks and those that describe only invertebrate paleobiology and that emphasize cataloguing live organisms instead of dead objects. For this third edition Donald R. Prothero has revised the art and research throughout, expanding the coverage of invertebrates and adding a discussion of new methodologies and…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-15892-3
- EAN: 9780231158923
- Produktnummer: 15177361
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 672 S.
- Masse: H27.9 cm x B21.6 cm x D0.0 cm 2'381 g
- Auflage: third edition
- Abbildungen: 543 figures; 5 Tables
- Gewicht: 2381
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Donald R. Prothero is one of today's leading scientists and authors in the field of paleontology and evolution. He is a former professor of geology at Occidental College and a lecturer in geobiology at Caltech. He is presently a research associate in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. The author of more than thirty books and 250 scientific papers published in leading scholarly journals, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, and the Linnean Society of London. In 1991 he received the award for Outstanding Paleontologist Under the Age of 40 and was awarded the 2013 James Shea Award by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences.
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