Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To Paleobiology

Download or read book Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To Paleobiology written by Donald R. Prothero and published by McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text to combine both paleontology and paleobiology. Traditional textbooks treat these separately, despite the recent trend to combine them in teaching. It bridges the gap between purely theoretical paleobiology and purely descriptive invertebrate paleontology books. The text is targeted at undergraduate geology and biology majors, with the emphasis on organisms, rather than dead objects to be described and catalogued. Current ideas from modern biology, ecology, population genetics, and many other concepts will be applied to the study of the fossil record.