This popular science book provides a journey through the eons of time and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in living creatures which have survived from earliest times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.
A summary of thirty years of Siberian research, presenting evidence from the fossilised remains of herbivorous animals.
In the face of accelerating extinctions across the globe, what ought we to do? Amid this sea of losses, what is our responsibility? How do we assess the value of nonhuman species? In this book, the author explores urgent questions about the destruction of species and provides a …
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subs…
In this volume, Martin J.S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writings on fossils and catastrophes. Some of these writings have never appeared before in English, and two pieces have never been published in any language. Rudwick links these trans…
This book provides an up-to-date coverage of Conservation Biology, including sustainable development, global warming, payments for ecological services, and strategies to save species on the verge of extinction. Many examples of successful conservation approaches are presented an…
"We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates, altering existing species in unprecedented ways and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines th…
Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. The author warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality with…
Written by a team of leading experts in ecology, this text provides details of techniques enabling quantification of biodiversity patterns and their mathematical modelling.
"Branching processes play an increasingly important role in models of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary theory. This book presents this body of mathematical ideas for a biological audience, but should also be enjoyable to mathematicians, if onl…
"The conservation of biodiversity is one of the most important issues facing the world today. In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new coauthor James Gibbs offer a thorough introducing to the fascinating and important field of conservation biolog…
Using the Earth system approach, Steven M. Stanley shows how the Earth's ecosystem has developed over time, and how events in the past can help us to deal with present and future changes.
