Titlebook: Bones, Rocks and Stars; The Science of When Chris Turney Book 2006Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 200

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The Volcano that Shook Europe,ips exploring the beauty of the Greek islands. Strictly speaking, it’s not just one island but a collection, together making up a doughnut-ring shape. Sections of the northern and southern ring are now gone, allowing the sea water to flood into the central basin which is an impressive 84 sq km. The

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The Coming of the Ice,ed that it might seem to have been an idea kicking around for millennia. Yet, just a few hundred years ago in Western Europe, most people believed the world was only around 6000 years old. The rocks, the earth and all the fossils they saw covering the landscape were from the catastrophic Great Flood

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The Lost Worlds,s strutted around in New Zealand. Since the end of the nineteenth century, many different writers have noticed that the world does not have abundant creatures over 40 kg. Collectively, these large beasts are known as ‘megafauna’. Alfred Wallace, who wrote the first paper on evolution by natural sele

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And then there was One,k of beyond; a deep-seated desire to know where we came from. The expression often guarantees media time for any find, no matter how small Yet it’s also one of the most divisive areas of human endeavour. With only a small number of human fossils, there are almost as many ideas about what they mean.

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Bones, Rocks and Stars978-0-230-55230-2Series ISSN 2947-7387 Series E-ISSN 2947-7395