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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.
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General
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- "The Earlier Forms of Life" by in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (January 1877)
- "Pleased with a Feather" by in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (July 1879)
- "History and Methods of Paleontological Discovery I" by in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (December 1879)
- "The Rise and Progress of Paleontology" by in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (December 1881)
- "The Energy of Life Evolution, and How it Has Acted" by in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (October 1885)
- "German Paleontological Museums" by in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (October 1886)
- "Palæontology," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (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.
- "Prehistoric Times" by in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (May 1872)
- "The Fossil Man of Mentone" by in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (October 1874)
- "The First Traces of Man in Europe I" by in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (April 1875)
- "Man and the Glacial Period" by in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (November 1877)
- "The Fossil Man" by in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (July 1880)
- "Who was Primitive Man?" by in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (November 1882)
- "How the Earth was Peopled I" by in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (September 1883)
- "Origin of Man and Other Vertebrates" by in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (September 1885)
- "Paleolithic Man in America: His Antiquity and Environment" by in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (November 1888)
- "Prehistoric Jasper Mines in the Lehigh Hills" by in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (September 1893)
- "Fossil Man" by in Popular Science Monthly, 44 (March 1894)
- "Primigenial Skeletons, The Flood, and the Glacial Period" by in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (November 1895)
- "New Evidence of Glacial Man in Ohio" by in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (December 1895)
- "Prehistoric Engineering at Lake Copais" by in Popular Science Monthly, 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
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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.
- Some account of Triplosporite, an undescribed fossil fruit, 1847 by Robert Brown
- "How the Ancient Forests Became Coal" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (May 1883)
- "Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone" by in Popular Science Monthly, 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.
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- "An Attempt to Account for the Origin and the Formation of the Extraneous Fossil commonly called the Belemnite" by Joshua Platt in Philosophical Transactions, volume 54 (1764)
- "Bone Caves," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Footprints in the Rocks" by in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (August 1873)
- "The Great Cemetery in Colorado" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (February 1874)
- "A Gigantic Relic" by in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (May 1874)
- "Animals Extinct in the Historic Period" by in Popular Science Monthly, 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, 12 (November 1877)
- "The Gigantic Extinct Armadillos and their Peculiarities, with a Restoration" by in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (June 1878)
- "Pleased with a Feather" by in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (July 1879)
- "Many-Toed Horses" in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (December 1879)
- "A Gigantic Fossil Bird" by in Popular Science Monthly, 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 in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (January 1883)
- "The British Lion" by in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (November 1882)
- "The Effect of Cave Life on Animals, and its Bearing on the Evolution Theory" by in Popular Science Monthly, 36 (January 1890)
- A New Genus of Characeae and New Merostomata from the Coal Measures of Nova Scotia, 1922 by Walter A. Bell
- The Osteology of the Reptiles by Samuel Wendell Williston, ed. by William K. Gregory (1925)