Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America (Life of the Past)
By: Richard A. Farina
3.86
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South Ameri…
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1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Bu… read more
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- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- evolution
"Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size…"-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
2. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- evolution
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
3. The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions
By: David Quammen
3.59
Format: 378 pages,
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4. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
By: Michael J. Benton
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million yea… read more
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- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- evolution
5. The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
By: Leigh Calvez
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this boo… read more
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6. Einstein: His Life and Universe
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more
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7. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
By: Carl Sagan
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Dr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into… read more
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8. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- nonfiction
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
9. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- evolution
10. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
By: Rob Dunn
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets … read more
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- nonfiction
"I know what I want my dust to say about me."-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
"Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species."-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
11. Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
By: Gregory Skomal
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Greg Skomal, one of the leading great white shark experts in the country, reveals the true natu… read more
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- nonfiction
"Now the white shark has returned to one of America’s most iconic summertime destinations, and it’s challenging our perception of what the ocean is to us. For the first time in a long time, we have a …"-Gregory Skomal, Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
12. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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- nonfiction
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
13. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Life of the Past)
By: Michael J. Everhart
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The bright midday sun glinted off the calm waters of the Inland Sea and silhouetted the long, sinuo… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
By: Brian Switek
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone." --Wal… read more
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15. Splendid Isolation: The Curious History of South American Mammals
By: George Gaylord Simpson
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Pp. ix, 266, 43 text-figures. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, cream pictorial dus… read more
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16. The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans
By: Charles River Editors
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The P… read more
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17. After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past)
By: Donald R. Prothero
3.86
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and… read more
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- nonfiction
- evolution
18. In Pursuit of Early Mammals (Life of the Past)
By: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
3.67
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Hunters of Early Mammals presents the history of the mammals that lived during the Mesozoic era, wh… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods
By: Jennifer A. Clack
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began the most exciting adven… read more
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- evolution
20. Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America (Life of the Past)
By: Richard A. Farina
3.86
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- evolution
21. The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology (Life of the Past)
By: Rachel C. Benton
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. E… read more
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