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Taphonomie des petits vertébrés : référentiels et transferts aux fossiles : actes de la table ronde du RTP taphonomie, Talence 20-21 octobre 2009
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ISBN: 9781407308432 1407308432 Year: 2011 Volume: 2269 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress


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Biominerals and fossils through time
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ISBN: 9780521874731 0521874734 9780511781070 9780511933493 0511933495 0511853319 1107218780 0511925751 1282943790 9786612943799 0511928262 0511781075 0511932138 0511930798 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Fossils are essential to the reconstruction of the evolution of life and episodes in Earth history. Knowledge of biomineralization - the processes associated with the formation of mineralized biological structures - is essential to properly evaluate data derived from fossils. This book emphasizes skeletal formation and fossilization in a geologic framework in order to understand evolution, relationships between fossil groups, and the use of biomineral materials as geochemical proxies for understanding ancient oceans and climates. The focus is on shells and skeletons of calcareous organisms, and the book explores the fine structures and mode of growth of the characteristic crystalline units, taking advantage of most recent physical methodological advances. The book is richly illustrated and will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers in paleontology, Earth history, evolution, sedimentology, geochemistry, and materials science.


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Comparative perspectives on language acquisition : a tribute to Clive Perdue
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ISBN: 1847696058 1280120894 9786613524751 184769604X 9781847696045 9781280120893 9781847696052 9781847696038 1847696031 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters,

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This volume aims to provide a broad view of second language acquisition within a comparative perspective that addresses results concerning adult and child learners across a variety of source and target languages. It brings together contributions at the forefront of language acquisition research that consider a wide range of open questions: What are the precise mechanisms underlying acquisition? How can we characterize learners’ initial state and predict their degree of final achievement? What role do specific (typological) properties of source and target languages play? How does fossilization occur? How does the relative complexity of cognitive systems in adult and child learners affect acquisition? Does language learning influence cognitive organization? Can language learning shed light on our general understanding of human language and language processing?

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