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Animal Worlds

Le Loeuff J: What Did Dinosaurs Think
About?

What Did Dinosaurs Think About?

Explore the mind of a bee and learn what drives its behavior.

What Do Bees Think About?

How different from animals are we really?Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms on Earth. How did we come to think of our animality as standing in opposition to our humanity-and does this reasoning have a scientific basis? Through the fascinating discoveries made by ethologists, anthropologists, and archeologists, Serra deciphers our behaviors in light of their animal roots and demystifies ideas about how different animals are from humans. She compares human behaviors with those exhibited by other species in chapters spanning topics as varied as sex, morality, emotions, intelligence, and family. Exploring the evolution of various animal species, as well as the evolution of historical ideas about humanity and animality, Serra theorizes that human behaviors and motivations may hold more in common with those of animals than we think. These explorations of scientific findings encourage us to reconsider how much we have truly removed ourselves from "the beast within."

Humans as Animals

The Beast Within

This book aims to integrate exploration geophysics with remote sensing as a cost-effective method and easy to implement for prospecting in different areas. It provides exploration geophysicists with the necessary information on how to use advanced remote sensing technology in the exploration of oil and gas, minerals, and groundwater.

This book aims to integrate exploration geophysics with remote sensing as a cost-effective method and easy to implement for prospecting in different areas. It provides exploration geophysicists with the necessary information on how to use advanced remote sensing technology in the exploration of oil and gas, minerals, and groundwater.

Remote Sensing for Geophysicists

This is a captivating evolutionary narrative of the human body, exploring the pivotal traits that make humans unique as a species. It provides a better understanding of why we look the way we do, through an evolutionary morphological lens, by delving into the functional explanations for the unique characteristics of us and our ancestors and the evolutionary pathways that shaped them. It integrates changes in anatomy with functional shifts, but also with underlying genetic and environmental transformations that drove our evolution. The main body of the book focuses around four fundamental themes that have evolutionarily sculpted us into who we are today, ever since the shared origin with the chimpanzee: diet, brain, locomotion and skin. This book not only promises to enrich our understanding of human evolution but also challenges us to reconsider what it means to be human in light of our ancient lineage and ongoing evolutionary journey. It also:<ul> <li>Provides a complete overview of the major events of human evolution;</li> <li>Helps readers understand why our body has been shaped the way it is;</li> <li>Integrates genes, anatomy, function, behavior and ecology, creating a more complete picture, written in an accessible text while incorporating many facts and figures building upon both historic and recent literature;</li> <li>Offers an up-to-date view of how anthropologists currently see our evolution;</li> <li>Focuses on four fundamental changes in the brain, diet, skin and locomotion;</li> <li>Explains some aspects of what humans are experiencing today (e.g., why some people are lactose intolerant).</li> </ul>

On the Human Track

Exploring the Evolution of our Ancestors

"In recent years, new discoveries yielded through analysis of ancient DNA have made headlines around the world. Can and should we take these stories at face value? In this thought-provoking book, archaeologist Anna Kèallâen provides a concise and accessible guide to the promises and perils of telling stories about the past using genomic science. Acknowledging the power of ancient DNA to rewrite ideas about who we are and where we came from, Kèallâen offers a variety of cautionary examples to demonstrate why such narratives should be received, understood, and crafted with greater accuracy as well as sensitivity. Probing the gaps between the hype and the science, The Trouble with Ancient DNA is required reading for anyone interested in the fascinating findings of paleogenomics"--

Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science

The Trouble with Ancient DNA

Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

Paleontology in the United States

Making Our Beasts

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. Where did humans come from? Where did life come from? New fields of study, such as molecular biology and astrobiology, are shedding remarkable new light on the origin of life and the origin of sex. In this Very Short Introduction Michael J. Benton covers all the main fossil groups including dinosaurs, and the upheavals such as mass extinctions that have beset our planet and life on Earth. Benton highlights the key episodes in the evolution of life from its origin over some four billion years, to the 10 million or more species today. The book ends with a consideration of humans themselves, with our ability to modify the Earth in ways that no other species has ever done, and the consequences of that power. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

A Very Short Introduction

The History of Life

A marvelously illustrated look at everything we now know about the fearsome king of the dinosaurs Continue the adventure with the dazzling film, T.REX, narrated by Sam Neill, now playing in IMAX and museum cinemas worldwide Tyrannosaurus rex is the world’s favorite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by paleontologists. This stunningly illustrated book brings together everything we have learned about T. rex—the “King of the Tyrant Lizards”—since it was first given its famous name in 1905. It presents these creatures as science knows them rather than the version portrayed in movies, revealing them to be dramatically different, and far more amazing, than ever imagined. With numerous original paintings and diagrams by the author, King Tyrant draws on the latest discoveries to offer a modern understanding of Tyrannosaurus, pulling back the curtain of media hype that often obscures these extraordinary extinct animals while cementing their reputation as the most formidable carnivores of the Mesozoic. <ul><li>Features more than 150 breathtaking illustrations, photos, and diagrams</li><li>Covers everything from the research history of T. rex to their anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, behavior, and extinction</li><li>Reveals how the Tyrannosaurus known to science is characterized as much by radical changes in body form throughout its growth as its enormous size and powerful jaws</li><li>Discloses details about their lifestyles and behavior evidenced from fossils, from violent face-biting between rivals to their capacity to literally pull the heads off Triceratops carcasses</li><li>Gets to the bottom of the many controversies surrounding T. rex, such as: Was there really more than one species of Tyrannosaurus? Did they live and hunt in groups? How fast could they run and how hard could they bite? Can we truly distinguish males from females?</li><li>Discusses T. rex in popular culture, showing how our love for this dinosaur has both helped and hindered research</li></ul>

A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus Rex

King Tyrant

This authoritative volume brings together decades of insights from one of the longest terrestrial fossil records on the planet.

Paleontology and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Siwalik Record

At the Foot of the Himalayas

Diese ungewöhnlich konzipierte und gestaltete Einführung vermittelt in sehr verständlicher Form einen Überblick über die Grundlagen der Evolution und über die vielfältigen Facetten moderner Evolutionsforschung. Darwins Theorie ist immer noch ihre Grundlage, aber die Evolutionstheorie ist viel umfassender, interessanter und überraschender als die meisten Menschen denken. Dank moderner experimenteller Techniken lernen wir, die Beziehung zwischen Genen und Körpern und die verschiedenen Konflikte und Spiele zu verstehen, die in und zwischen Organismen stattfinden.

Das Buch ist erfrischend anders als traditionelle Lehrbücher: mit leichter Feder und doch prägnant geschrieben, von zahlreichen didaktischen Elementen durchsetzt und mit anschaulichen Grafiken illustriert. Alte Fragestellungen werden hier in neuem Licht präsentiert, neue Konzepte und Sichtweisen anhand vieler Beispiele nachvollziehbar gemacht. Die Autoren präsentieren die Evolutionsbiologie als eine dynamische Disziplin, die keine Probleme hat, neu entdeckte biologische Phänomene einzubeziehen, und die es uns ermöglicht, die detaillierte Geschichte einzelner Gruppen von Organismen mit ihren einzigartigen evolutionären Innovationen zu rekonstruieren und zu verstehen.Für die 3. Auflage wurde der Text um neue Erkenntnisse und Beispiele aktualisiert, die Kapitel wurden teilweise umstrukturiert und die einzelnen Kapitel schließen mit take-home messages ab. Die Autoren Jan Zrzavý&nbsp;(*1964) ist Universitätsprofessor für Zoologie an der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Südböhmischen Universität in České Budějovice. Zu seinen Lehr- und Forschungsinteressen gehören Evolutionsbiologie, Phylogenese der Tiere und die Evolution des Menschen. Hynek Burda&nbsp;(*1952) ist emeritierter Universitätsprofessor an der Universität Duisburg-Essen und Gastprofessor an der Südböhmischen Universität in České Budějovice (Budweis) und der Agraruniversität in Prag.&nbsp;Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Biologie subterraner Säugetiere, Sinnes- und Verhaltensökologie, Morphologie und Evolution der Wirbeltiere,&nbsp;einschließlich des Menschen..David Storch&nbsp;(*1970) ist Universitätsprofessor für Ökologie an der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät und Mitglied des Zentrums für Theoretische Studien an der Karlsuniversität in Prag. Seine Forschungsinteressen sind Makroökologie und ökologische Theorie, insbesondere räumliche Trends in der Artenvielfalt und Faunistik.Sabine Begall&nbsp;(*1968) ist außerplanmäßige Professorin für Zoologie an der Fakultät für Biologie der Universität Duisburg-Essen. In Lehre und Forschung vertritt sie vor allem Zoologie, Evolutionsbiologie, Sinnes- und Verhaltensbiologie, wobei subterrane Tiere im Zentrum ihres Interesses stehen. Stanislav Mihulka&nbsp;(*1973) ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der&nbsp;Südböhmischen Universität in České Budějovice (Budweis), wo er sich in Lehre und Forschung mit&nbsp;der Ökologie und Evolution von Pflanzen beschäftigt. Der Illustrator: Jan Burda&nbsp;(*1980) ist leitender Digital Compositor, der die Herstellung visueller Filmeffekte zu seiner Arbeit und seinem Hobby gemacht hat. Er ist Mitglied der Deutschen Filmakademie und mehrere Jahre im Vorstand tätig. Außerdem ist er Dozent an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.&nbsp;

Ein Lese-Lehrbuch

Evolution

The Geomagician

Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory-and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
The very idea that there was a human past before recorded history only emerged with the Enlightenment, when European thinkers began to reject faith-based notions of humanity and history in favour of supposedly more empirical ideas about the world. From the "state of nature" and Romantic notions of virtuous German barbarians to theories about Neanderthals, killer apes and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the ideas that animated many of the major thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. Yet as Geroulanos shows, such ideas became, for the most part, the ideological foundations of repressive regimes and globe-spanning empires. Deeming other peoples "savages" allowed for guilt-free violence against them; notions of "killer apes" who were our evolutionary predecessors made war seem natural. The emergence of modern science only accelerated the West's imperialism. The Nazi obsession with race was rooted in archaeological claims about prehistoric IndoGermans; the idea that colonialised peoples could be "bombed back to the Stone Age" was made possible by the technology of flight and the anthropological idea that civilisation advanced in stages.
As Geroulanos argues, accounts of prehistory tell us more about the moment when they are proposed than about the deep past-and if we hope to start improving our future, we would be better off setting aside the search for how it all started. A necessary, timely, indelible account of how the quest for understanding the origins of humanity became the handmaiden of war and empire, The Invention of Prehistory will forever change how we think about the deep past.

Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

The Invention of Prehistory

The essential illustrated compendium of theropod dinosaurs, from the mighty Tyrannosaurus to fierce feathered raptors The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Theropods brings together every species of predatory dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along with a concise history of its discovery. Each species is beautifully brought to life with vivid illustrations and is supported by meticulously detailed diagrams of all known fossils. These visual aids enable readers to explore how scientists reconstruct these incredible creatures from fossilized remains. Whether you’re curious about Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, or the multitude of less familiar theropod species, this encyclopedia covers them all. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is a comprehensive three-volume resource for anyone who is fascinated by dinosaurs. Packed with engaging dino facts and original, full-color reconstructions, drawings, and graphics, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia strikes a perfect balance between depth and accessibility—detailed enough to captivate professionals yet clear and exciting enough for beginners eager to dive into the amazing lost world of the dinosaurs. The three volumes, which are available individually or as a set, are Theropods, Sauropods, and Ornithischians. Organized for easy reference, these books are perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. Together, this encyclopedia invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to walk among the wondrous beasts of the Mesozoic era.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Theropods

Vertebrate Ichnology: Fish Ichnology, Consumption, Burrows and Reproduction, Geoconservation is a comprehensive and meticulously researched review and analysis of the entire vertebrate trace fossil record, shedding light on lesser-known vertebrate traces beyond footprints. From vertebrate burrows to the ichnology of reproduction, each chapter provides valuable insights and up-to-date information. The book explores a wide range of topics, including consumption through coprolites, dentalites, regurgitalites, and other trace fossils that are evidence of vertebrate predation and consumption. This authoritative reference provides students, researchers, and professionals in the field of Earth and Planetary sciences with updated information on the geological heritage of vertebrate ichnosites and their importance in geoconservation efforts.

Tracks and Trails, Consumption, Digging and Reproduction, Geoconservation

Vertebrate Ichnology

What Did Dinosaurs Think About?

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