Tag: Fossils

Free Download R. Lee Lyman, "Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating"
English | 1999 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 0306461528, 147578192X | PDF | 10,1 mb
It is difficult for today’s students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often with considerable precision.

Free Download Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations by David R. Begun, Carol V. Ward, Michael D. Rose
English | PDF | 1997 | 430 Pages | ISBN : 0306454572 | 45 MB
An insightful new work, Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated – functional and phylogenetic analysis. The book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil record. The contributors present the most up-to-date statements on the functional anatomy and likely behavior of the best known hominoids of this crucial period of ape and human evolution. A key feature is a comprehensive table listing 240 characteristics among 13 genera of living and extinct hominoids.

Free Download Maximilian J. Telford, "Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils, and Trees"
English | ISBN: 0199549427 | 2009 | 264 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans – from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms – is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a modern, integrated approach to describe how current molecular genetic techniques and disciplines as diverse as palaeontology, embryology, and genomics have been combined, resulting in a dramatic renaissance in the study of animal evolution.