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 Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyBest Price: $13.51 Upon reading the preceding, uniformly glowing reviews, I couldn't help but wonder if maybe they... |  Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It MattersBest Price: $27.61 There are a few recent books on religion, science, skepticism, and evolution that will probably... |  Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary HistoryBest Price: $19.38 This book is a great follow-up to The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives and like the... |  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils (National Audubon Society Field Guide Series)Best Price: $11.81 Nobody does it like the National Audubon Society. Read the other reviews for more in-depth... |  Tyrannosaurus rex, the Tyrant King (Life of the Past)Best Price: $31.30 With its massive head, enormous jaws, and formidable teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been... |
 Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library)Best Price: $11.50 David Christian had a great ambition with this book: to write the history of everything there... |  Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryBest Price: $7.74 In the beginning of Wonderful Life, Gould writes: "Words, of course, must be varied, if... |  A History of Paleontology Illustration (Life of the Past)Best Price: $24.91 It is a very heavily illustrated book, and there are some good points about it. You many be... |  The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest AncestorsBest Price: $8.83 This was a well-written presentation of the doings of some of the big names in modern... |  The Human Bone ManualBest Price: $28.98 This book has helped me to identify human bones associated with artefacts (e.g. spears,... |
 The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay GouldBest Price: $17.72 The Richness of Life is a good overview of Stephen Jay Gould's writings, but the individual... |  Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic (Life of the Past)Best Price: $30.87 _Dawn of the Dinosaurs_ by Nicholas Fraser is a popular overview of the first period of the... |  The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom AnimaliaBest Price: $54.00 "The Rise of Animals" is a wonderful book. Much of the history of life on Earth was... |  Fossil Shark Teeth of the WorldBest Price: $19.95 a good book, very useful for shark teeth identification, unfortunately there is not much more... |  After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past)Best Price: $24.24 The book traces history of life after the dinosaurs, with focus on the changing climate and... |
 Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient AtmosphereBest Price: $8.59 The title of this book refers to the general argument that oxygen levels in the atmosphere have... |  Landscaping with Native Plants of MinnesotaBest Price: $14.89 This is a great guide of Minnesota (and neighboring states) native plants. You will probably not... |  The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its PeoplesBest Price: $8.00 A sweeping eco-historical narrative that begins with the demise of the dinosaurs, Tim Flannery's... |  The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity And Evolution (Helix Books)Best Price: $14.46 Cavalli-Sforza offers a concise account of human genetic history. Using his own research as... |  From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and ExpandedBest Price: $33.45 This is an excellent text for those interested in paleoanthropology and human evolution in... |
 The Big Cats and Their Fossil RelativesBest Price: $14.69 This is BY FAR the best book about ANY prehistoric mammals that I have ever found! The fact that... |  Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American PaleontologyBest Price: $15.59 Hedeen's "Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology" is a great review of the... |  The Great Dinosaur Mystery SolvedBest Price: $7.05 I gave this one star because the Author took this 100% seriously. I, on the other hand, don't... |  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of BirdsBest Price: $26.37 Scientists have recovered more than a billion fossils, but no discovery has been more... |  After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North AmericaBest Price: $14.31 This is a fabulous book. I have read it twice, will read it again and again. I am not a... |
 What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the CretaceousBest Price: $17.75 If your main interest is paleoentomology, this might be a helpful reference. It was interesting... |  Human Devolution: a Vedic alternative to Darwin's theoryBest Price: $21.94 I bought a copy of this book when it came out and have managed to muster the patience to go... |  Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our FutureBest Price: $8.44 I read the Scientific American article a while back and this book further explains the potential... |  The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our FutureBest Price: $5.95 The author, a scientist, actually did of OK job of keeping me interested in the book. The thing... |  When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All TimeBest Price: $14.50 together with the author we sift through the sientific evidence. There is no simple solution,... |
 Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human FossilsBest Price: $13.41 Think the fossil "record" proves evolution? You won't after you've read this... |  The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost SecretsBest Price: $4.48 This book is great for anyone researching the Delphinic Oracle tradition. It also sheds light... |  Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To PaleobiologyBest Price: $89.51 In the late Paleocene, when I took upper division paleontology, we used Clarkson's Invertebrate... |  The Complete Guide to Prehistoric LifeBest Price: $2.98 This book accompanies the Walking with Dinosaurs shows that appeared on BBC. I am not sure... |  Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years AgoBest Price: $10.00 I found this book very easy to read. Mr. Erwin has a sort of sense of humor he adds to the book... |
 Oceans Of Kansas: A Natural History Of The Western Interior Sea (Life of the Past)Best Price: $22.88 A long winded with the history of the paleo pioneers but extremely well done. I enjoyed it. |  Fossiling in Florida: A Guide for Diggers and DiversBest Price: $12.28 Having canoed MANY times down the Peace River in Arcadia, FL over the last 20+ years - and... |  T. Rex and the Crater of DoomBest Price: $4.49 This book started off a little slow, because it covered a number of elementary topics, but then... |  Strickberger's EvolutionBest Price: $54.67 I took an evolution class with Ridley's Evolution as the textbook. It was way too much and I... |  Florida's FossilsBest Price: $16.46 After some serious beachcoming on the Gulf Coast of Florida, I found myself increasingly... |
 Life of the Past (4th Edition) (Prentice Hall Earth Science Series)Best Price: $43.00 I knew this was not in perfect condition, but it works. Was delivered in a timely fashion. |  Simon & Schuster'S Guide To Fossils (Nature Guide Series)Best Price: $10.27 Simon and Schuster's Guide to Fossils, is the best choice for field usage and as a good... |  The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in AmericaBest Price: $17.50 The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick,... |  Ice Age Mammals of North AmericaBest Price: $12.06 The book was very insightful, and the illustrations were quite interesting. The information was... |  The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's HistoryBest Price: $19.17 It is a very good idea of David Beerling to start each chapter of 'The Emerald Planet' with a... |
 Discovering Fossils: How to Find and Identify Remains of the Prehistoric Past (Fossils & Dinosaurs)Best Price: $10.69 It was an OK read, however, I would have liked more stories about her job instead of her. |  The Pterosaurs: From Deep TimeBest Price: $4.99 I could only read this book for so long before "gasping for air"; it was way too... |  Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, Supplement 5 (Dinosaurs the Encyclopedia)Best Price: $135.05 If you already have Glut's "Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia" and the previous four... |  Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World (Life of the Past)Best Price: $27.28 _Jurassic West_ by John Foster is a comprehensive overview of the geology and biota of the... |  The Earth Through TimeBest Price: $70.00 I have an older edition from my time at Ohio State about 15 years ago and much has changed. I... |
 Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of RevolutionBest Price: $20.00 This enormous book (well over 700 large pages) tells the story of the origins of geology in the... |  Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?Best Price: $8.27 Non-fiction titles generally lend themselves to summaries a little bit more easily than... |  A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series)Best Price: $14.77 I have used this book to refer to numerous times. It gives a very good perspective of the... |  Collapse of Evolution, TheBest Price: $3.77 If I had to choose just one book for an overview of how real science supports Genesis rather... |  History of LifeBest Price: $27.55 This text is aimed at students and anyone interested in the history of life on our planet. It... |
 Hell Creek, Montana: America's Key to the Prehistoric PastBest Price: $2.00 Hell Creek, Montana, is one of the most windswept, hardscrabble locales in the American West-a... | ||||
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