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Paleontology |
| Paleontology is the study of prehistoric life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments. As a "historical science" it tries to explain causes rather than conduct experiments to observe effects.— Excerpted from Paleontology on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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General [edit]
- “The Earlier Forms of Life,” by Charles Henry Hitchcock in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, January 1877
- “Pleased with a Feather,” by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly Volume 15, July 1879
- “History and Methods of Paleontological Discovery I,” by Othniel Charles Marsh in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, December 1879
- “History and Methods of Paleontological Discovery II,” by Othniel Charles Marsh in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, January 1880
- “The Rise and Progress of Paleontology,” by Thomas Henry Huxley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, December 1881
- “The Energy of Life Evolution, and How it Has Acted,” by Edward Drinker Cope in Popular Science Monthly Volume 27, October 1885
- “German Paleontological Museums,” by Albert Gaudry in Popular Science Monthly Volume 29, October 1886
- “Palæontology,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
- Cambrian Geology and Paleontology, 1910-24 by Charles Doolittle Walcott in four volumes
Early humans [edit]
Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and species closely related to them. The genus is estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old, evolving from australopithecine ancestors with the appearance of Homo habilis. All species of the genus except Homo sapiens (modern humans) are extinct. The other extant Homininae—the chimpanzees and gorillas—have a limited geographic range. In contrast, the evolution of humans is a history of migrations and admixture. Humans repeatedly left Africa to populate Eurasia and finally the Americas, Oceania, and the rest of the world.— Excerpted from Homo on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- “Prehistoric Times,” by Titus Munson Coan in Popular Science Monthly Volume 1, May 1872
- “The Fossil Man of Mentone,” by Theodore Gill in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, October 1874
- “The First Traces of Man in Europe I,” by Albrecht Mueller in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, April 1875
- “The First Traces of Man in Europe II,” by Albrecht Mueller in Popular Science Monthly Volume 7, May 1875
- “Man and the Glacial Period,” by Thomas Belt in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, November 1877
- “The Fossil Man,” by Henry Williamson Haynes in Popular Science Monthly Volume 17, July 1880
- “Who was Primitive Man?,” by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, November 1882
- “How the Earth was Peopled I,” by Gaston de Saporta in Popular Science Monthly Volume 23, September 1883
- “How the Earth was Peopled II,” by Gaston de Saporta in Popular Science Monthly Volume 23, October 1883
- “Origin of Man and Other Vertebrates,” by Edward Drinker Cope in Popular Science Monthly Volume 27, September 1885
- “Paleolithic Man in America: His Antiquity and Environment,” by W. J. McGee in Popular Science Monthly Volume 34, November 1888
- “Prehistoric Jasper Mines in the Lehigh Hills,” by H. C. Mercer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 43, September 1893
- “Fossil Man,” by John G. Rothermel in Popular Science Monthly Volume 44, March 1894
- “Primigenial Skeletons, The Flood, and the Glacial Period,” by Herbert Philip Fitzgerald Marriott in Popular Science Monthly Volume 48, November 1895
- “New Evidence of Glacial Man in Ohio,” by George Frederick Wright in Popular Science Monthly Volume 48, December 1895
- “Prehistoric Engineering at Lake Copais,” by John Denison Champlin Jr. in Popular Science Monthly Volume 48, December 1895
- Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei, 2008 by Peter S. Ungar, Frederick E. Grine and Mark F. Teaford
Paleobotany [edit]
Paleobotany is the branch of paleontology or paleobiology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeography), and both the evolutionary history of plants, with a bearing upon the evolution of life in general.— Excerpted from Paleobotany on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Some account of Triplosporite, an undescribed fossil fruit, 1847 by Robert Brown
- “How the Ancient Forests Became Coal,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 23, May 1883
- “Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone,” by Samuel Escue Tillman in Popular Science Monthly Volume 43, July 1893
- A New Genus of Characeae and New Merostomata from the Coal Measures of Nova Scotia, 1922 by Walter A. Bell
Paleozoology [edit]
Paleozoology is the branch of paleontology or paleobiology dealing with the recovery and identification of multicellular animal remains from geological (or even archeological) contexts, and the use of these fossils in the reconstruction of prehistoric environments and ancient ecosystems.— Excerpted from Paleozoology on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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- “Footprints in the Rocks,” by Charles Henry Hitchcock in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, August 1873
- “The Great Cemetery in Colorado,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 4, February 1874
- “A Gigantic Relic,” by Hezekiah Butterworth in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, May 1874
- “Animals Extinct in the Historic Period,” by Charles Émile Blanchard in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, July 1874
- Description of a New Species of Trilobite, 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Description of the Interior Surface of the Dorsal Shell of Ceraurus pleurexanthemus, Green, 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- New Species of Trilobite from the Trenton Limestone at Trenton Falls, N. Y., 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Notes on Ceraurus pleurexanthemus, Green, 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- “The Gigantic Moa-Bird,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, November 1877
- “The Gigantic Extinct Armadillos and their Peculiarities, with a Restoration,” by John A. Ryder in Popular Science Monthly Volume 13, June 1878
- “Pleased with a Feather,” by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly Volume 15, July 1879
- “Many-Toed Horses,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, December 1879
- “A Gigantic Fossil Bird,” by Stanislas Étienne Meunier in Popular Science Monthly Volume 21, August 1882
- Notice of the discovery of a Poecilopod in the Utica slate formation, 1882 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- “A Mastodon in an Old Beater-Meadow,” by Samuel Lockwood in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, January 1883
- “The British Lion,” by William Boyd Dawkins in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, November 1882
- Description of a New Genus of the Order Eurypterida from the Utica Slate, 1882 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- “The Effect of Cave Life on Animals, and its Bearing on the Evolution Theory,” by Alpheus Spring Packard in Popular Science Monthly Volume 36, January 1890
- The Eurypterida of New York, 1912 by John Mason Clarke and Rudolf Ruedemann
- Carboniferous Eurypterids of Nebraska, 1914 by Erwin Hinckly Barbour
- A New Genus of Characeae and New Merostomata from the Coal Measures of Nova Scotia, 1922 by Walter A. Bell
- Eurypterids of the Devonian Holland Quarry Shale of Ohio, 1961 by Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering
- Pennsylvanian invertebrates of the Mazon Creek Area, Illinois: Eurypterida, 1963 by Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering
