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In this exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth. Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with...
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), col. maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
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With an extensive catalog at its heart, "Prehistoric Life" profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail; features breathtaking, state-of-the-art images; explores the concept of geological time; and explains the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 video discs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-edge scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed...
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Publisher
W.H. Freeman
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xiv, 332 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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For centuries, science has been searching for clues to the disappearance of the dinosaurs without answering a critical question - Are all the dinosaurs really extinct? In The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, crackerjack paleontologists Lowell Dingus, President of Infoquest, a nonprofit education and research foundation, and former Director of the Fossil Hall Renovation at the American Museum of Natural History and Timothy...
5) The genesis quest: the geniuses and eccentrics on a journey to uncover the origin of life on Earth
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Some have argued that life began in the chemical-rich seas of the early Earth, the famous primordial soup, while others are convinced that life began in strange vents pumping hot water out of the sea floor, where the chemical reactions that sustain living cells could get started. Or perhaps life began in volcanic ponds on land, or in meteorite impact zones, or even in beds of clay. Each idea has attracted staunch believers who promote it with an...
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English
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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
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Series
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
xvii, 312 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges...
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BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
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x, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationships with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, forced upon us by the experimental findings...
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Publisher
Polyface
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xx, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean good farmer. His goal is to: Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialized food system ; Bring clean food farmers and their patrons into a teamwork relationship ; Marry the best of western technology with the soul of eastern ethics ; Educate food buyers about productions ; Create a food system that enhances natureś...
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2000
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IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. map. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the evidence of dinosaurs with skeletal structures and feathers so similar to birds and why that is convincing many scientists that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be. In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ancient ancestors in different parts of the world) and his own "out of Africa" theory, which maintains that humans...
13) Delicatessen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a futuristic society where meat is a rare commodity, a delicatessen serves up its customers as a nutritious replacement!
15) Habilis: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans and human language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride Lucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herself thrust into a mysterious anthropology museum that converts into a disco club each night. Moving through its labyrinthine galleries, she tries to construct an origin story for herself and for her species. But as the night progresses, her grip on language and identity...
16) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 blu-ray discs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
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Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Join geneticist Spencer Wells and a team from National Geographic's Genographic Project as they trace the human journey through time, from our origins in the heart of Africa to the ends of the world. Cutting edge science, coupled with a cast of New Yorkers -- each with their own unique genetic history -- helps paint a picture of these amazing journeys. The human family tree answers some of humanity's most burning questions -- who we are and where...
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