Author : J.A. Musick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401131945
Author : J.A. Musick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 1991-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780792312895
Author : N. Eldredge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461382718
The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in their familiar appli cation to law and medicine. The case method had its formal beginning at Harvard in 1871 when Christopher Lagdell developed it as a means of teaching. It was so successful in teaching law that it was soon adopted in medical education, and the collection of cases provided the raw material for research on various diseases. Subsequently, the case history approach spread to such varied fields as business, psychology, management, and economics, and there are over 100 books in print that use this approach. The idea for a series of Casehooks in Earth Science grew from my experience in organizing and editing a collection of examples of one variety of sedimentary deposits. The prqject began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of papers was needed. Accordingly, the nearly fifty contributors worked together with George de Vries Klein and me to establish a standard format for presenting the case histories.
Author : Peter Forey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1997-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780412784804
This book evaluates the reputation of the coelacanth, presenting up-to-date accounts of the structure of fossil coelacanths, and suggests a family history to show that there have been subtle but significant changes in coelacanth history.
Author : Samantha Weinberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2001-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0060932856
The coelacanth (see-lo-canth) is no ordinary fish. Five feet long, with luminescent eyes and limb like fins, this bizarre creature, presumed to be extinct, was discovered in 1938 by an amateur icthyologist who recognized it from fossils dating back 400 million years. The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century," but the excitement that ensued was even more incredible. This is the entrancing story of that most rare and precious fish -- our own great-uncle forty million times removed.
Author : Zerina Johanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1107179440
World-class palaeontologists and biologists summarise the state-of-the-art on fish evolution and development.
Author : Keith Stewart Thomson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1992-07-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393245357
"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles Times In the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls—an animal of major importance to those who study the history of vertebrate life. Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the coelcanth and what scientists have learned about it during fifty years of research. It is an exciting and very human story, filled with ambitious and brilliant people, that reveals much about the practice of modern science.
Author : Mike Bruton
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813064642
"When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs - The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith's dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton's The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith's text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date" - Publisher's website.
Author : Margaret M. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1205 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642828582
Dr. D. S. Henderson, Chairman of the 1. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology and Vice Chancellor of Rhodes University This book is a unique, international collaborative effort ranging all of the colour plates for the book. For the past of 76 scientists, representing 15 countries. Several skilled eight years, she has been assisted in the research, writing artists and photographers have also contributed to the and editing of the book by Dr. P. C. Heemstra. numerous and beautiful illustrations. Research done in It is essential for the proper management of the marine South Africa was supported by the Council for Scientific fish resources of southern Africa that we know what species and Industrial Research. Work on the book at the J.L.B. we are dealing with. This book will greatly facilitate the Smith Institute was also funded by the Department of identification of our fishes. It will thus be of vital import National Education and The Trustees of the Sea Fishes of ance to the understanding and wise use of our tremendously Southern Africa Book Fund. Expenses of visits by ichthy diverse and valuable fish fauna. ologists from overseas were defrayed by a grant from the We are proud of the affiliation of the J.L.B. Smith Insti John S. Schlesinger Foundation. tute with Rhodes University and happy to see the successful Although this book is an impressive contribution to the completion of this long-awaited work.
Author : R. Glenn Northcutt
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
