Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything

by D Mac Dougall (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $44.83

  Tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. This book shows how scientists used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $76.54

  Examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating - the best known of these methods - and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, this book unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as 'Lucy', and the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction.