Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals

Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals pdf

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Robert M. Schoch 博士,自 1984 年起成为波士顿大学通识学院的全职教员,并因跨学科教学获得佩顿里希特奖,获得了博士学位。 1983 年在耶鲁大学获得地质学和地球物理学博士学位。和 M.Phil。耶鲁大学地质学和地球物理学学士,以及乔治华盛顿大学人类学 (BA) 和地质学 (BS) 学位。为了表彰他对古代文明的研究,Schoch 博士被授予(2014 年)保加利亚瓦尔纳 Nikola Vaptsarov 海军学院名誉教授的称号。 2017 年,波士顿大学通识学院任命他为文明起源研究所 (ISOC) 所长。 在 1990 年代初期,Schoch 博士以其革命性的研究震惊了世界,该研究将埃及大狮身人面像的日期改写为比其标准归属早数千年的时期。尽管位于撒哈拉沙漠边缘的狮子纪念碑在过去 5,000 年中经历了极度干旱的气候条件,但在证明狮子纪念碑已被水严重侵蚀时,Schoch 博士向世界透露,人类的历史更伟大,更伟大。比以前认为的要古老。 Schoch 博士的研究发表在他的著作《被遗忘的文明:太阳爆发在我们过去和未来中的作用》(2012 年)中,指出了上古文明消亡的天文原因,以及支持他的科学和考古证据结论。 Schoch 博士因其在全球古代文化和古迹方面的工作而被媒体广泛引用。他的研究有助于激发人们重新关注地质和天文现象、自然灾害和早期文明史之间的相互关系。他出现在众多广播和电视节目中,并出现在获得艾美奖的纪录片《狮身人面像之谜》中,该纪录片于 1993 年首次在 NBC 播出。 Schoch 博士是技术和流行书籍的作者和合著者,其著作包括古生物学中的系统发育重建 (1986)、地层学:原理和方法 (1989)、岩石之声 (1999)、金字塔建造者的航行 (2003)、 Pyramid Quest (2005)、The Parapsychology Revolution (2008)、Forgotten Civilization (2012) 和 Origins of the Sphinx (2017) 等。 Schoch 博士还是美国各大学使用的环境科学教科书的合著者,他为众多杂志、期刊和关于地质学、古代文明、超心理学和其他主题的评论做出了贡献。他的作品已被翻译成多种语言并在世界各地发行。 除了学术研究之外,Schoch 博士还是一位积极的环保倡导者,他强调务实、实践的方法。在这方面,他帮助建立了一个致力于保护土地免受有害开发的当地社区土地信托,并在其董事会任职多年。尽管承认我们的太阳是地球气候的主要驱动力,Schoch 博士仍积极参与“绿色”政治; for over a decade he served as an elected member of his local city council. 1993 年,一个已灭绝的哺乳动物属被命名为 Schochia,以纪念 Schoch 博士的古生物学贡献。 Schoch 博士在 1990 年代初期(与 Thomas Dobecki 博士合作)发现了狮身人面像爪子下方的房间,许多人认为这是一个古老的档案或“记录大厅”,至今仍未被探索。

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Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals pdf 罗伯特·肖克

Since the extinction of the dinosaurs, hoofed mammals have been the planet's dominant herbivores. Native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, they include not only even-toed artiodactyls (pigs, hippos, camels, deer, antelopes, giraffes, sheep, goats, and cattle) and odd-toed perissodactyls (horses and rhinos), but also tethytheres (elephants and their aquatic relatives, manatees and seas cows) and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), which descended from hoofed land mammals. Recent paleontological and biological discoveries have deepened our understanding of their evolution and in some cases have made previous theories obsolete. In Horns, Tusks, and Flippers, Donald R. Prothero and Robert M. Schoch present a compelling new evolutionary history of these remarkable creatures, combining the latest scientific evidence with the most current information about their ecology and behavior.Using an approach based on cladistics, the authors consider both living and extinct ungulates. Included in their discussion are the stories of rhinos, whose ancestors include both dinosaur-sized hornless species and hippo-like river waders; elephants, whose earliest ancestors had neither tusks nor trunks; and whales, whose descent from hoofed mesonychids has never properly been described for the lay audience. Prothero and Schoch also update the evolutionary history of the horse, correcting the frequent errors made in textbooks and popular works, and they make available to the general public new evidence about the evolution of camels, horned antelopes, and cattle. In addition, they raise important conservation issues and relate anecdotes of significant fossil finds.Scientifically accurate and up to date, generously illustrated, and clearly written, Horns, Tusks, and Flippers is a useful and much-needed resource for specialists in the fields of paleontology, zoology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, as well as for general readers interested in learning more about the story of life on earth.

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