Palaeontology

Palaeontology or paleontology (/ˌpeɪlɪɒnˈtɒlədʒi/, /ˌpeɪlɪənˈtɒlədʒi/ or /ˌpælɪɒnˈtɒlədʒi/, /ˌpælɪənˈtɒlədʒi/) is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments (their palaeoecology). Palaeontologist observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC. The science became established in the 18th century as a result of Georges Cuvier's work on comparative anat ...more

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
The Ends of the World
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times

Charles Darwin
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extrem ...more
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

La paléontologie ne ranime pas seulement des mémoires effacées par la mort, elle invite à penser l'ordre du monde. Lequel dérange par l'absence de détermination finale. ...more
Jean Le Loeuff, Dans la peau d'un dinosaure

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