Dinosaurs A Concise Natural History

Name: Dinosaurs A Concise Natural History
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ISBN: 9780521719025

ISBN-10: 052171902X

ISBN-13: 9780521719025

Edition: 2009

Authors: David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel

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From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, comes a general introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists, designed to excite readers about science by using the ever-popular animals - the dinosaurs - to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history and evolution. While it focuses on dinosaurs, it also uses them to convey other aspects of the natural sciences, including fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology, physiology, life history, and systematics. Considerable attention is devoted the nature of science itself: what it is, what it is not, and how science can be used to investigate particular kinds of questions. Dinosaurs is unique because it…

Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Preface: why this book?



Reaching Back in Time



To catch a Dinosaur



Dinosaur days



Who's related to whom - and how do we know?



Who are the Dinosaurs?



Ornithischia: Armored, Horned, and Duckbilled Dinosaurs



Thyreophora: the armor-bearers



Marginocephalia: bosses, bumps, and beaks



Ornithopoda: the Tuskers, Antelopes and 'Mighty Ducks' of the Mesozoic



Saurischia: Meat, Might, and Magnitude



Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic



Theropoda I: Nature red in tooth and claw



Theropoda II: The origin of birds



Theropoda III: Early birds



Endothermy, Endemism, and Extinction



Dinosaur thermoregulation: some like it hot



The flowering of the Mesozoic



Thoughts of a Paleontologist: A history of ideas in paleontology



The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction: the frill is gone