A Manual of Palaeontology, Vol. 1 of 2: For the Use of Students

Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker

ISBN 10: 1527866513 / ISBN 13: 9781527866515

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Print on Demand. This book, a seminal work on palaeontology and the history of life on earth, details the scientific methods used to determine the age of fossils, their classification, and the broader significance of palaeontological research. The author traces the history of palaeontology, from its early beginnings as a descriptive science to its modern status as an integral part of geology, biology, and ecology, and he emphasises how our understanding of past life has been advanced by the development of new techniques and technologies, such as isotopic dating and DNA sequencing. The book is a fascinating read and relevant to anyone interested in the history of life on earth or the history of science, and it will be of particular interest to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in palaeontology and related disciplines, as well as professional palaeontologists. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: A Manual of Palaeontology, Vol. 1 of 2: For the Use of Students
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1527866513
• ISBN 13: 9781527866515
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Paleontology

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Excerpt from A Manual of Palaeontology, Vol. 1 of 2: For the Use of Students, With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology

The term fossilisation may be applied in a general sense to all the processes through which an organic body passes in order to be come a fossil. Here we need only consider the three leading forms' in which fossils present themselves. In the first instance, the fossil is to all intents and purposes an actual organic remain, being itself a fragment of an animal or plant. Thus we may meet with fossil bones, shells, or wood, which may have undergone certain changes, such as would be produced by pressure, by the deprivation of or ganic matter originally present, or by more or less complete infiltra tion with mineral matter, but which, nevertheless, are practically the real bodies they represent. As a matter of course, it is in the more modern formations that we find fossils least changed from their primitive condition, but almost all formations contain some fossils in which the original structure is more or less completely retained.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.