On the Trail of the Past
11 hrs. 20 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Irina Yakovleva
Author
Vladimir Yakovlev
Narrator
Sergey Kirsanov
Narrator
Sergey Kirsanov
Description
In this book, paleontologists I. Yakovleva and I. Yakovlev introduce readers to the science of paleontology and to the discoveries the scientists made. Before the reader will unfold pictures from the distant past of our planet.
One of the best popular science books about paleontology. Although in the thirty years since its publication, much has been clarified and revised, the book remains unquestionably interesting.
Paleontology—the science seemingly plunged into the planet’s depths—serves as a window into space, through which we will learn to see the patterns of life’s history and the emergence of thinking beings. (Efremov I.)
01_00_Chapter I The Beginning of Beginnings
01_01_The Age of the Earth
01_02_Flasks and Space
01_03_Pre-life on the Conveyor
01_04_Memory of Life
01_05_Where and when did life begin to develop on Earth?
01_06_The Time of “Invisible Ones”
01_07_Kings and Cabbage
01_08_The Search for a Better Life Continues
02_00_Chapter II A Skeleton Revolution
02_01_The Starting Point—The Upper Boundary of the “Dark Ages”
02_02_“Indirect Clues” Reveal Ancient Secrets
02_03_The “Golden Age” of Multicellular Life
02_04_Why the “Invisible Ones” Had to Dress Up
02_05_Achievements of the “Invisible Ones”
02_06_An Ocean Without Predators
02_07_Fortresses, Little Houses, Armor…
03_00_Chapter III Ancestors Under Water
03_01_Lost Ancestors
03_02_The Appearance of the Ancestor
03_03_Brain in a Box
03_04_Down the Staircase Leading Up
03_05_“Scouts” from the Future
03_06_The Time of Fish
04_00_Chapter IV The First “Scouts” of Land
04_01_The Great Invasion
04_02_Once in the Devonian…
04_03_The Missing Link?
05_00_Chapter V In the Frog’s Paradise
05_01_Trustworthy Traces of the Disappearing Paradise
05_02_Green Inhabitants of the Carboniferous Land and Their Mysteries
05_03_The World Without the Sun—or a Sunny World?
05_04_And One More Mystery…
05_05_They Owed Everything to Water
05_06_Giant Conquests of the Six-legged Giants
05_07_The First Flight
05_08_Timid Steps on a Muddy Earth
05_09_In the Warm Nutrient Sea
05_10_Letters in a Bottle
06_00_Chapter VI The Generation of Winners
06_01_The Permian Page of the Cosmic Calendar
06_02_V. P. Amalitsky and the Daily Life of a Paleontologist
06_03_A Few Words About the Dig Site and Other Concerns of a Paleontologist
06_04_Big Concerns of a Small Dvini(a)
06_05_At the Fork in the Roads
06_06_A Chicken or an Egg?
06_07_Storming the Secrets of Beast-like Creatures
07_00_Chapter VII The World Between Past and Future
07_01_The Color of Deserts
07_02_The First Victims of Cruel Competition
07_03_Between Two Chairs
07_04_War of Animals and Reptiles
07_05_With a Long-range Aim
07_06_What Happened to the World Ocean?
07_07_How Did Fish Live?
07_08_True Masters of the Triassic Seas
07_09_Buried by a Volcano
07_10_The Ancient World Through a Paleozoologist’s Eyes
07_11_Amazing “Winged Flier” Creatures
07_12_Other Oddities of Triassic Land
07_13_The Start of Dinosaurs
08_00_Chapter VIII On Land, in Water, and in the Air. The Flourishing of Dinosaurs
08_01_The Jurassic Period—Midday of the Mesozoic
08_02_About Two Main Groups of Dinosaurs
08_03_On the Amazing Find of the Wife of an English Naturalist
08_04_In Jurassic Forests
08_05_Diplodocus, Meaning “Two-dumb”
08_06_Stegosaurus—“Covered Lizard”
08_07_Allosaurus—“Alien Lizard”
08_08_Brachiosaurus—“Shoulder Lizard”
08_09_Assembling a Skeleton Correctly—It’s Not Just That!
08_10_Paleontology in the Wild West
08_11_Great Enemies
08_12_About Young Mary Anning and Her Finds
08_13_Ichthyosaurs of Holzmaden
08_14_“Spider Stones” and Their Story
08_15_Riches of Solnhofen
08_16_New Air Conquerors
08_17_Unique Finds
08_18_Archaeopteryx Votes for Darwinism
08_19_Karatay—A Freshwater Solnhofen
08_20_Mammals in the Jurassic
09_00_Chapter IX The Last Parade of Dinosaurs
09_01_What Is the Cretaceous Period Interesting for Paleontologists?
09_02_Geography and Climate
09_03_On the Shore of the Cretaceous Sea
09_04_Iguanodon—“Iguan-tooth”
09_05_The Find of Professor Marsh
09_06_A Giant Among Giants
09_07_Drama in a Marsh
09_08_A Diving Lizard
09_09_Tarbosaurus—“A Lizard-Bandit”
09_10_Looking Back at the History of Dinosaurs
09_11_The First Modern Mammals
09_12_The Last Dinosaur
10_00_Chapter X Catastrophes, Catastrophes…
10_01_Causes of Dinosaur Extinctions
11_01_Chapter XI The First Successes of Former Vassals
11_02_A Prolonged Epilogue
11_03_A Rabbit, a Wolf, and a Lamb
11_04_Shades of Ancient Plains
11_05_The Indrik Beast
11_06_The Strange Creature Chalicotherium
11_07_“Give Me One Bone, and I’ll Reconstruct the Animal!”
11_08_People Trapped in Amber
11_09_Lawn and Jungle
12_00_Chapter XII Beasts and Continents
12_01_New Zealand
12_02_Australia—A Backup Option for Nature
12_03_A Few Words About South America
12_04_Mousebobr and an Owl-Strassike from the Island of Cuba
12_05_Geolarktika—The Main Field of Evolution
12_06_An Ordinary Retinue of a Three-toed Horse
12_07_Summer Morning 10 Million Years Ago
12_08_Paleotraguses and Their Kin
12_09_A Little Something About Camels
12_10_About Elephants and Elephant-like Creatures
12_11_About Finds of Remains of Mammoths
12_12_Skeletons of Mastodons and the Adventure of One of Them
12_13_The Elephant
12_14_Strange Relatives
12_15_Sea Cow
12_16_The Fate of the Kalan Makes One Optimistic
12_17_Whales
12_18_The Sources of Reason
13_01_Chapter XIII The Last Miles of Evolution
13_02_From the History of Humankind
13_03_Place of Action—Africa
13_04_Isn’t It Time to Reconsider the Border?
13_05_Chapter XIV Possible Variants
13_06_To Be or Not to Be?
13_07_The Dog That We Sit On
13_08_Facts and Figures
13_09_Be Careful—Oxygen!
13_10_Do We Care for Water?
13_11_A Jinn Released from the Bottle
13_12_How Many of Us Are on Earth?
13_13_The Human of the Future—What Will They Be Like?
13_14_A Portrait of a Descendant
13_15_Yesterday and Tomorrow
One of the best popular science books about paleontology. Although in the thirty years since its publication, much has been clarified and revised, the book remains unquestionably interesting.
Paleontology—the science seemingly plunged into the planet’s depths—serves as a window into space, through which we will learn to see the patterns of life’s history and the emergence of thinking beings. (Efremov I.)
Contents:
01_00_Chapter I The Beginning of Beginnings
01_01_The Age of the Earth
01_02_Flasks and Space
01_03_Pre-life on the Conveyor
01_04_Memory of Life
01_05_Where and when did life begin to develop on Earth?
01_06_The Time of “Invisible Ones”
01_07_Kings and Cabbage
01_08_The Search for a Better Life Continues
02_00_Chapter II A Skeleton Revolution
02_01_The Starting Point—The Upper Boundary of the “Dark Ages”
02_02_“Indirect Clues” Reveal Ancient Secrets
02_03_The “Golden Age” of Multicellular Life
02_04_Why the “Invisible Ones” Had to Dress Up
02_05_Achievements of the “Invisible Ones”
02_06_An Ocean Without Predators
02_07_Fortresses, Little Houses, Armor…
03_00_Chapter III Ancestors Under Water
03_01_Lost Ancestors
03_02_The Appearance of the Ancestor
03_03_Brain in a Box
03_04_Down the Staircase Leading Up
03_05_“Scouts” from the Future
03_06_The Time of Fish
04_00_Chapter IV The First “Scouts” of Land
04_01_The Great Invasion
04_02_Once in the Devonian…
04_03_The Missing Link?
05_00_Chapter V In the Frog’s Paradise
05_01_Trustworthy Traces of the Disappearing Paradise
05_02_Green Inhabitants of the Carboniferous Land and Their Mysteries
05_03_The World Without the Sun—or a Sunny World?
05_04_And One More Mystery…
05_05_They Owed Everything to Water
05_06_Giant Conquests of the Six-legged Giants
05_07_The First Flight
05_08_Timid Steps on a Muddy Earth
05_09_In the Warm Nutrient Sea
05_10_Letters in a Bottle
06_00_Chapter VI The Generation of Winners
06_01_The Permian Page of the Cosmic Calendar
06_02_V. P. Amalitsky and the Daily Life of a Paleontologist
06_03_A Few Words About the Dig Site and Other Concerns of a Paleontologist
06_04_Big Concerns of a Small Dvini(a)
06_05_At the Fork in the Roads
06_06_A Chicken or an Egg?
06_07_Storming the Secrets of Beast-like Creatures
07_00_Chapter VII The World Between Past and Future
07_01_The Color of Deserts
07_02_The First Victims of Cruel Competition
07_03_Between Two Chairs
07_04_War of Animals and Reptiles
07_05_With a Long-range Aim
07_06_What Happened to the World Ocean?
07_07_How Did Fish Live?
07_08_True Masters of the Triassic Seas
07_09_Buried by a Volcano
07_10_The Ancient World Through a Paleozoologist’s Eyes
07_11_Amazing “Winged Flier” Creatures
07_12_Other Oddities of Triassic Land
07_13_The Start of Dinosaurs
08_00_Chapter VIII On Land, in Water, and in the Air. The Flourishing of Dinosaurs
08_01_The Jurassic Period—Midday of the Mesozoic
08_02_About Two Main Groups of Dinosaurs
08_03_On the Amazing Find of the Wife of an English Naturalist
08_04_In Jurassic Forests
08_05_Diplodocus, Meaning “Two-dumb”
08_06_Stegosaurus—“Covered Lizard”
08_07_Allosaurus—“Alien Lizard”
08_08_Brachiosaurus—“Shoulder Lizard”
08_09_Assembling a Skeleton Correctly—It’s Not Just That!
08_10_Paleontology in the Wild West
08_11_Great Enemies
08_12_About Young Mary Anning and Her Finds
08_13_Ichthyosaurs of Holzmaden
08_14_“Spider Stones” and Their Story
08_15_Riches of Solnhofen
08_16_New Air Conquerors
08_17_Unique Finds
08_18_Archaeopteryx Votes for Darwinism
08_19_Karatay—A Freshwater Solnhofen
08_20_Mammals in the Jurassic
09_00_Chapter IX The Last Parade of Dinosaurs
09_01_What Is the Cretaceous Period Interesting for Paleontologists?
09_02_Geography and Climate
09_03_On the Shore of the Cretaceous Sea
09_04_Iguanodon—“Iguan-tooth”
09_05_The Find of Professor Marsh
09_06_A Giant Among Giants
09_07_Drama in a Marsh
09_08_A Diving Lizard
09_09_Tarbosaurus—“A Lizard-Bandit”
09_10_Looking Back at the History of Dinosaurs
09_11_The First Modern Mammals
09_12_The Last Dinosaur
10_00_Chapter X Catastrophes, Catastrophes…
10_01_Causes of Dinosaur Extinctions
11_01_Chapter XI The First Successes of Former Vassals
11_02_A Prolonged Epilogue
11_03_A Rabbit, a Wolf, and a Lamb
11_04_Shades of Ancient Plains
11_05_The Indrik Beast
11_06_The Strange Creature Chalicotherium
11_07_“Give Me One Bone, and I’ll Reconstruct the Animal!”
11_08_People Trapped in Amber
11_09_Lawn and Jungle
12_00_Chapter XII Beasts and Continents
12_01_New Zealand
12_02_Australia—A Backup Option for Nature
12_03_A Few Words About South America
12_04_Mousebobr and an Owl-Strassike from the Island of Cuba
12_05_Geolarktika—The Main Field of Evolution
12_06_An Ordinary Retinue of a Three-toed Horse
12_07_Summer Morning 10 Million Years Ago
12_08_Paleotraguses and Their Kin
12_09_A Little Something About Camels
12_10_About Elephants and Elephant-like Creatures
12_11_About Finds of Remains of Mammoths
12_12_Skeletons of Mastodons and the Adventure of One of Them
12_13_The Elephant
12_14_Strange Relatives
12_15_Sea Cow
12_16_The Fate of the Kalan Makes One Optimistic
12_17_Whales
12_18_The Sources of Reason
13_01_Chapter XIII The Last Miles of Evolution
13_02_From the History of Humankind
13_03_Place of Action—Africa
13_04_Isn’t It Time to Reconsider the Border?
13_05_Chapter XIV Possible Variants
13_06_To Be or Not to Be?
13_07_The Dog That We Sit On
13_08_Facts and Figures
13_09_Be Careful—Oxygen!
13_10_Do We Care for Water?
13_11_A Jinn Released from the Bottle
13_12_How Many of Us Are on Earth?
13_13_The Human of the Future—What Will They Be Like?
13_14_A Portrait of a Descendant
13_15_Yesterday and Tomorrow
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