Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions of insects. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space – where, Shaw proposes, insect-like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence – Pla...(展开全部)

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions of insects. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space – where, Shaw proposes, insect-like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence – Pla...(展开全部)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the American cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why. Only Tyson can tell this s...(展开全部)

作者：尼尔•德格拉斯•泰森 天体物理学家，美国自然博物馆海登天文馆馆长，畅销科普书作者。 纪录片《宇宙》主持人，《生活大爆炸》客串演员，《时代》周刊影响力人物。 2001年国际天文学联合会将13123号小行星以他的名字命名 2004年获美国国家航空航天局“杰出公共服务奖章” 2007年入选《时代》周刊“全球百位最具影响力人物” 2008年入选《发现》杂志“科学界十大最具影响力人物” 2017年获“斯蒂芬•霍金科学传播奖” 译者：郑永春 行星科学家，中国科学院国家天文台研究员，中国科普作家协会副理事长，青年科学家社会责任联盟理事长，科普中国形象大使，教科版小学《科学》教材编写组成员。 中国首位“卡尔•萨根奖”得主 全国十大科学传播人物 中国科学院青年创新促进会首届优秀会员 “中国科学院院长奖”得主 译者：刘晗 北京外国语大学博士生。本科毕业于北京师范大...(展开全部)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the American cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why. Only Tyson can tell this s...(展开全部)

For nearly 100 million years amphibians and their ancestors dominated the terrestrial and shallow water environments of the earth. Archaic animals with an amphibious way of life gave rise not only to modern frogs, salamanders, and caecilians but also to the ancestors of reptiles, birds, and mammals. In this landmark publication, one of the leading paleontologists of our time ex...(展开全部)

The first detailed, illustrated, and comprehensive review of the fossil record of birds in a modern phylogenetic context. Distinguished palaeontologist Chattergee provides a clear and exciting chronology documenting the long odyssey of birds since Protoavis - which may have taken to the air some 75 million years before the widely known `first bird', Archaeopterix. It discusses ...(展开全部)

A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in the age of dinosaurs. He called it Protoavis, and the animal that owned these bones q...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Professor John Maynard Smith has written an account of a new way of thinking about evolution which has been developed in the last ten years. The theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an...(展开全部)