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Critical Terms for Animal Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...
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Across the Bridge Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
ISBN: PB: 9780226403052, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 line drawings
Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....
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Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
ISBN: PB: 9780300216844, ISBN: HB: 9780300182026, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 163 colour illus.
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...
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Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226271200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284880, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary ima...
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Lost World of Fossil Lake Snapshots from Deep Time
ISBN: HB: 9780226922966, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 tables, 243 colour plates, 3 line illus.
The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...
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First in Line Tracing Our Ape Ancestry
ISBN: PB: 9780300180176, Yale University Press, July 2011
220 pp., 21x14.8 cm, black&white illus.
Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ances...
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Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History
ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.
Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...
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£116,50
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