(Part 2) Best paleontology books according to redditors
We found 68 Reddit comments discussing the best paleontology books. We ranked the 26 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Gaining Ground - Devonian origins of tetrapods
The Rise of Fishes - early evolution of fishes with focus on Paleozoic fishes
Earth Defore the Dinosaurs - comprehensive review of the Paleozoic
Dawn of the Dinosaurs - General review of the Triassic, focus on tetrapods. Beautifully illustrated.
The Human Career is a good one as well as Principles of Human Evolution
This is what I would recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Terrestrial-Ecosystems-Through-Time-Evolutionary/dp/0226041557
It's 20 years old, but still good. This is based from the Smithsonian, they have a terrestrial ecosystem working group there and this was a publication by them. Check out the table of contents, it covers what you're interested in pretty closely.
It gives an overview of the problems, as well as how we know what we know, and a lot of detail as well into what was going on through time.
There has certainly been plenty of follow up work since then, but that's fairly easy to find with a literature search.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
"Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body"
"Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened"
T-Rex and the Crater of Doom by Alvarez.