Paleontology
Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59947-342-0 (ISBN)
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Paleontology: A Brief History of Life is the fifth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings. Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes in the Earth’s environment. He introduces the complex of evolutionary processes, situates human beings in the luxuriant diversity of Life (demonstrating that however remarkable we may legitimately find ourselves to be, we are the product of the same basic forces and processes that have driven the evolutionary histories of all other creatures), and he places the origin of our extraordinary spiritual sensibilities in the context of the exaptational and emergent acquisition of symbolic cognition and thought. Concise and yet comprehensive, historically penetrating and yet up-to-date, responsibly factual and yet engaging, Paleontology serves as the perfect entrée to science's greatest story.
Ian Tattersall is a curator in the division of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar. He is also a prominent interpreter of human paleontology to the public.
Introduction / 3
Chapter 1: Rocks, Time, and Fossils / 7
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Processes / 19
Chapter 3: The Tree of Life / 33
Chapter 4: In the Beginning / 44
Chapter 5: The Paleozoic: “Ancient Life” / 53
Chapter 6: The Age of Dinosaurs / 80
Chapter 7: The Age of Mammals / 113
Chapter 8: Of Whales and Primates / 135
Chapter 9: Walkers and Toolmakers / 149
Chapter 10: A Cognitive Revolution / 178
Acknowledgments / 205
Bibliography / 207
Index / 219
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Templeton Science and Religion Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 18 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Radnor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59947-342-9 / 1599473429 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59947-342-0 / 9781599473420 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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