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Palaeobiology II / by Briggs, D. E. G.(CARDINAL)329270; Crowther, Peter R.(CARDINAL)332985;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Paleobiology.;

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Major transitions in evolution [videorecording] / by Martin, Anthony J.,1960-author,speaker.(CARDINAL)316813; Hawks, John(John David),author,speaker.(CARDINAL)341478; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

DVD; full screen presentation.Lecturer: Professor Anthony Martin, Emory University ; Professor John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 107-116).An overview of significant evolutionary transitions in the 4 billion-year history of life.

Subjects: Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Educational films.; Video recordings.; Evolution (Biology);

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Biology and human behavior [videorecording] : the neurological origins of individuality / by Sapolsky, Robert M.(CARDINAL)328471; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Producer, Alisha Reay ; director, Jon Leven ; editor, Alisha Reay ; academic content supervisor, Pam Greer ; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jim Allen, Tom Dooley, Jared Bourgeois ; graphics, Alisha Reay, Jennifer Gray.Twenty-four lectures of 30 minutes each by Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neuroscience, Stanford University.Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, is an interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.

Subjects: Educational films.; Biology.; Brain; Human behavior; Neuroanatomy.; Neurochemistry.; Neurophysiology.;

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Deep time : paleobiology's perspective : a special volume commemorating the 25th anniversary of the journal Paleobiology / by Erwin, Douglas H.,1958-(CARDINAL)325824; Wing, Scott L.(CARDINAL)325823;

Includes bibliographical references.Directionality in the history of life: diffusion from left wall or repeated scaling of the right? / Andrew H. Knoll and Richard K. Bambach -- Micro- and macroevolution: scale and hierarchy in evolutionary biology and paleobiology / David Jablonski -- Conversations about Phanerozoic global diversity / Arnold I. Miller -- Origination and extinction components of taxonomic diversity: general problems / Mike Foote -- Taphonomy and paleobiology / Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Susan M. Kidwel, and Rober A. Gastaldo -- The quality of the fossil record: a sequence stratigraphic perspective / Steven M. Holland -- the biomoleculuar paleontology of continental fossils / Derek E.G. Briggs, Richard P. Evershed, and Matthew J. Lockheart -- Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary / Stephen T. Jackson and Jonathan T. Overpeck -- Life in the last few million years / Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Kenneth G. Johnson -- Pelagic species diversity, biogeography, and evolution / Richard D. Norris -- Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution / John Alroy, Paul L. Koch, and James C. Zachos -- Modeling fossil plant form-function relationships: a critique / Karl J. Niklas -- Invention by evolution: functional analysis of paleobiology / Roy E. Plotnick and Tomasz K. Baumiller -- Fossils, genes, and the origin of novelty / Neil H. Shubin and Charles R. Marshall -- Phylogenetic analyses and the fossil record: tests and inferences, hypothesis and models / Peter J. Wagner.

Subjects: Evolutionary paleobiology.;

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Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters / by Prothero, Donald R.(CARDINAL)323088; Buell, Carl Dennis.(CARDINAL)325217;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index.Foreword : why people do not accept evolution -- To the reader : is evolution a threat to your religious beliefs? -- Prologue : fossils and evolution -- Acknowledgments -- pt. I. Evolution and the fossil record -- 1. The nature of science -- What is science? -- Science and belief systems -- Belly buttons and testability -- Natural and supernatural -- Science, pseudoscience, and baloney detection -- Follow the evidence wherever it may lead -- 2. Science and creationism -- Mything links -- The genesis of genesis -- What is creationism? -- Twentieth-century creationism -- "Intelligent design", or "breathtaking inanity"? -- The monkey business of creationism -- 3. The fossil record -- Lucky accidents of fossilization -- Faunal succession or "flood geology"? -- The surreal world of "flood geology" -- The Grand Canyon through the looking glass -- Shop of foolishness? -- Dates with rocks -- Punk eek, transitional forms, and quote-miners -- 4. The evolution of evolution -- Before Darwin -- The evolution of Darwin -- The Neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis -- Challenges to Neo-Darwinism -- Unfinished synthesis -- Lamarck revisited -- Neutralism, junk DNA, and molecular clocks -- Macroevolution and evo/devo -- The evidence of evolution -- The family tree of life -- Homology -- Vestigial structure and other imperfections -- Embryology -- Biogeography -- Evolution happens all the time! -- 5. Systematics and evolution -- What is systematics? -- What is taxonomy? -- Ladders, bushes, mosaics and "missing links" -- The cladistic revolution -- Ancestor worship -- The molecular third dimension -- The branching tree of life.pt. II. Evolution? : the fossils say YES! -- 6. Life's origins -- To the blazing hot North Pole -- Recipe for primordial soup -- Mosh pits, fool's gold, kitty litter, black smokers, and mud -- Communal living builds complex cells -- Probability and the origin of life -- 7. Cambrian "explosion", or slow fuse? -- The creationists' favorite myth -- Step 1 : planet of the scum -- Step 2 : the garden of Ediacara -- Step 3 : the little shellies -- Step 4 : in with a whimper, not a bang -- 8. Spineless wonders of evolution -- Invertebrate transitions -- The incredible world of microfossils -- The story in the seashells -- What about macroevolution? -- 9. Fish tales -- Show some backbone! -- It's a long way from amphioxus -- Jaws : the evolutionary story -- 10. Fish out of water -- The great leap upward -- Lobe fins lead the way -- Four on the floor -- 11. Onto the land and back to the sea : the amniotes -- Innovative eggs -- Evolution of the great sea dragons -- Snakes with legs and hopping crocodiles -- 12. Dinosaurs evolve, and fly -- Dinosaur transitions -- Lifestyles of the huge and ancient -- Dinosaurs are alive! -- 13. Mammalian explosion -- From amniote to synapsid to mammals -- Furballs in the age of dinosaurs -- Radiation in the aftermath -- Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! -- 14. Bossies and blowholes -- Thundering hooves -- Tiny horses, hornless rhinoceroses, and thunder beasts -- Kingdom of cloven hooves -- Walking whales -- Dumbo and the mermaid -- 15. The ape's reflection? -- The only transition that really matters -- The truth about human fossils -- The third chimpanzee -- 16. Why does it matter? -- Deceit in the name of the Lord -- Why should we care? -- Choices for the future."Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before. The fossil record is now one of the strongest lines of evidence for evolution, and yet it continues to come under attack by present-day creationists and advocates of Intelligent Design for not supporting the theory of biological evolution. With this engaging and richly illustrated book, leading paleontologist Donald R. Prothero sets the record straight." "Prothero weaves an entertaining though intellectually rigorous history out of the transitional forms and series that dot the fossil record. Beginning with a brief discussion of the nature of science and the "monkey business of creation-ism," Prothero tackles subjects ranging from flood geology and rock dating to neo-Darwinism and macroevolution. He covers the ingredients of the primordial soup, the effects of communal living, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, the mammalian explosion, and the leap from early primates to Homo sapiens, Prothero pays particular attention to the recent discovery of "missing links" that complete the fossil timeline and the controversy among contemporary scientists over the mechanisms of evolution."--Jacket.

Subjects: Evolutionary paleobiology.; Evolution (Biology); Paleogeography.;

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The story of evolution in 25 discoveries : the evidence and the people who found it / by Prothero, Donald R.,author.(CARDINAL)323088;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. In the beginning : everything evolves, and earth is very old ; Everything evolves and changes : discovery of the evolving universe ; The abyss of time : The immense age of the Earth -- Part II. Darwin's evidence for evolution ; Evolution in action : transformation in real time ; Our common body plan : homology ; Ontology recapitulates phylogeny : evidence in embryos ; The sinking of Noah's ark: biogeography ; The branching tree of life : phylogeny ; The case of the cruel wasps : nature is not moral ; Jury-rigged contrivances : nature is not optimally designed -- Part III. Great transitions in the history of life ; A whale of a tale : vestigial organs and walking whales ; Invasion of the land: amphibians crawl out of the water ; Missing links found: macroevolution and transitional fossils ; Birds with teeth : the dinosaurs among us ; A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! : the evolution of equines ; How the giraffe got its neck : Lamarck, Darwin, and the left recurrent laryngeal nerve ; How the elephant got its trunk : the evolution of proboscideans -- Part IV. Eyes and genes ; A warm little pond : how did life originate? ; Genetics junkyard : most of our DNA is useless ; Legs on their heads : homeotic mutants and evo-devo ; The eyes have it : the evolution of photoreception -- Part V. Humans and evolution ; A tinkerer, not an engineer : are humans well designed? ; The third chimpanzee : are we really 99 percent the same? ; The ape's reflection : are humans really that different from other animals? ; Bones of our ancestors : the human fossil record ; The once and future human : are humans still evolving?"The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing. In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In twenty-five vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of the people who made crucial discoveries, placing each moment in the context of what it represented for the progress of science. He tackles topics like what it means to see evolution in action and the distance between species in space and time, following figures from Darwin to lesser-known researchers as they unlock the mysteries of the fossil record, the earth, and the universe. The book also features the stories of animal species strange and familiar, including humans-and our ties to some of our closest relatives and more distant cousins. Prothero's wide-ranging tales showcase awe-inspiring and bizarre aspects of nature and the powerful insights they give us into the way that life works"--

Subjects: Evolution; Evolution;

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Evolution : a beginner's guide / by Guttman, Burton S.(CARDINAL)732055;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.An accessible guide to a key scientific concept explores the origins and impact of Darwin's theory of evolution, from the first attempts to date fossils to the modern-day mapping and coding of DNA using supercomputers.

Subjects: Evolution.;

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