Looking at a period of history 22 to 2.5 million years ago, this title examines the record of the Neogene fossil apes: their adaptive trends, their morphologies and their relationships to the environment, their evolution and their ...

How and where to hunt fossils, and the history of these Florida treasures.

Fully updated and beautifully illustrated, this leading textbook teaches science and non-science majors to think like a scientist.

A unique reconstruction of the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates and their key role in inferring evolutionary processes on earth.

"With wit and authority, Falk tells the parallel stories of two fossil discoveries that surprised the world, revealing the larger significance of these finds.

The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as . . . Tyrannosaur Canyon?

The authors present an introductory guide to the fossil record of prehuman & human evolution through the presentation of detailed drawings of complete or nearly complete specimens that are representative of particular grades of evolution.

There is very little to rival this book. Famine is the most comprehensive short treatment of the subject available."--William Chester Jordan, author of The Great Famine "This is an important book.

"In this wonderful book, Adrienne Mayor successfully convinces us that some of our most treasured mythical creatures really were based on the skeletons of extinct animals.

Provides information on how rocks and fossils are formed and where they can be found and offers advice on which ones to collect and how to display them.