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The Cave Bear Story - Life and Death of a Vanished Animal (Paperback): Bjoern Kurten The Cave Bear Story - Life and Death of a Vanished Animal (Paperback)
Bjoern Kurten
R668 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R62 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Probably no extinct mammal can be studied in more detail, from a fuller fossil record, than the Cave Bear, Ursius Spelaeus. In his delightful, award-winning portrait, renowned finnish paleontologist Bjorn Kurten takes readers on a tour of cave bear life in the ice age. The Cave Bear story conveys the facts about these largest of bears, including the habits and society of Cave Bears, their ice age environment, biological variations, and extinction. Kurten also details the relationship between man and bear - namely, the theories surrounding bear-hunting and Cave Bear cults. Complete with brilliant illustrations by Margaret Lambert Newman that show restoration scenes of the ice age and its vanished animals, the Cave Bear story not only represents the authoritative work of an eminent paleontologist but remains accessible to any reader with an interest in the rich prehistory of our planet.

Before the Indians (Paperback): Bjoern Kurten Before the Indians (Paperback)
Bjoern Kurten; Illustrated by Margaret Lambert Newman, Hubert Pepper
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this illustrated work, Kurt?n offers a vivid panorama of vertebrate animal life as it unfolded during the more than three million years before humans came to the New World.

Not from the Apes - A History of Man's Origins and Evolution (Paperback, New ed): Bjoern Kurten Not from the Apes - A History of Man's Origins and Evolution (Paperback, New ed)
Bjoern Kurten
R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pleistocene Mammals of North America (Hardcover): Bjoern Kurten, Elaine Anderson Pleistocene Mammals of North America (Hardcover)
Bjoern Kurten, Elaine Anderson
R5,511 Discovery Miles 55 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Earliest Ancestors (Hardcover): Bjoern Kurten Our Earliest Ancestors (Hardcover)
Bjoern Kurten
R1,433 R1,251 Discovery Miles 12 510 Save R182 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tracing mankind's evolution from the birth of life on Earth three billion years ago to the emergence of modern human beings, this volume explains how the field of evolutionary study has been aided by research in comparative anatomy and molecular biology.

How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth (Hardcover): Bjoern Kurten How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth (Hardcover)
Bjoern Kurten
R1,321 R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Save R176 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does bison meat taste after being frozen for 30,000 years? Were Ice Age cave painters trying to create "art" or just record history? How did ancient oil spills occur, before there were oil companies to create them? Those are just some of the questions renowned paleontologist Bjorn Kurten answers in this collection of lighthearted essays on fossils, ancient life, and related topics. Written for the general reader, these lively pieces range from a look at how scientific theories are created to some new views of old myths. Among the topics Kurten examines are the history of the Mediterranean Sea, the origin of birds, the theory of plate tectonics (continental drift), and the discovery of Piltdown Man, the "missing link" fossil forgery that fooled scientists for more than 40 years.

And, true to its title, the book offers a humorous "recipe" for freezing a mammoth that is tundra-tested, if not totally foolproof. "You may have to expend a few hundred mammoths before everything works out," the reader is cautioned, "But there are plenty of them." (Although the author hasn't tasted the fruits of his mammoth recipe, he did feast on some ancient bison meat that dated from 30,000 years ago. Kurten described the taste as "agreeable.")

Throughout these essays Kurten brings the prehistoric world alive with enthusiasm and humor, emphasizing that paleontology is the study of those that lived long ago instead of those who are long dead. As he says, "Isn't it more fun to see a dinosaur as something that used to live, rather than as the monstrous heap of bones which it happens to be at present?"

The Innocent Assassins - Biological Essays on Life in the Present and Distant Past (Hardcover): Bjoern Kurten The Innocent Assassins - Biological Essays on Life in the Present and Distant Past (Hardcover)
Bjoern Kurten; Translated by Eric Friis
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Essays discuss size, time, the landscape, the world view of modern biology, two-dimensional animals, sabertooth tigers, evolution, and the scientific method.

On Evolution and Fossil Mammals (Hardcover): Bjoern Kurten On Evolution and Fossil Mammals (Hardcover)
Bjoern Kurten
R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Assembles Kurten's seminal papers in one volume, not only making them available once again but at the same time presenting a number of concepts and methodological innovations as they were first conceived.

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