Buku ini disusun sebagai bentuk dokumentasi, inventarisasi, dan publikasi ilmiah terhadap koleksi fosil moluska penting yang tersimpan di Museum Geologi Bandung. Buku ini berfungsi sebagai panduan referensi utama bagi para peneliti paleontologi, geologi, dan biostratigrafi di Indonesia.
In this beautifully illustrated natural history that links extinct larger feline species with those still in existence, collaborators Alan Turner and Mauricio Anton weave together the evidence of modern feline behavior with that of the fossil record. Turner's clear, insightful prose and Anton's masterly illustrations combine to offer specialists and newcomers alike an accurate and accessible gu…
For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, we hominins were restricted to Africa. Dating from about two million years ago, hominin fossils first appear in Eurasia. This volume addresses many of the issues surrounding this initial hominin intercontinental dispersal. Why did hominins first leave Africa in the early Pleistocene and not earlier? What do we know about the adaptations of t…
Peta yang dihasilkan dari sejumlah data dan informasi muka bumi diharapkan penyajiannya dapat dipakai dengan baik oleh siapapun. Peta sebenarnya adalah bentuk visual dan komunikasi, atau dengan kata lain, pengguna peta mendapat informasi muka bumi lewat mata (menggunakan indera mata). Buku ini memaparkan bagaimana seorang pembuat peta (kartografer) menyiapkan proses pembuatan peta dari hasil…
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY brings the study of physical anthropology to life! With a focus on the big picture of human evolution, the 15th Edition helps you master the basic principles of the subject and arrive at an understanding of the human species and its place in the biological world. Each chapter begins with new Student Learning Objectives and a chapter outline to help you focu…
For undergraduate introductory physical anthropology, biological anthropology or human origins courses. The only book that integrates the foundations and the most current innovations in the field from the ground up. Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology, incorporating the evolutionary biology of huma…
Situs Sangiran adalah situs manusia purba yang terbesar di Indonesia. Berada di dua wilayah Kabupaten, Sragen dan karanganyar, Situs Sangiran memiliki potensi sejarah, pendidikan, dan ilmu pengetahuan yang luar biasa. Penetapan Situs Sangiran sebagai Warisan Dunia oleh UNESCO merupakan bukti nyata potensi prima situs ini untuk pemahaman evolusi manusia. Spesimen-spesimen asli manusia purba sek…
Born eighteen months after the first Neanderthal skeleton was found and a year before Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, Eugene Dubois vowed to discover a powerful truth in Darwin's deceptively simple ideas. There is a link, he declared, a link as yet unknown, between apes and Man. It takes a brilliant writer to elucidate a brilliant mind, and Pat Shipman shines as never before. T…