The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs Hardback
by David E. (University of Rhode Island) Fastovsky, David B. (The Johns Hopkins University) Weishampel
Illustrated by John Sibbick
Hardback
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This 2005 edition of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs is a unique, comprehensive treatment of this fascinating group of organisms.
It is a detailed survey of dinosaur origins, their diversity, and their eventual extinction.
The book can easily be used as a teaching textbook for a class, but it is also written as a series of readable, entertaining essays covering important and timely topics appealing to non-specialists and all dinosaur enthusiasts: birds as 'living dinosaurs', the new feathered dinosaurs from China, 'warm-bloodedness'.
Along the way, the reader learns about dinosaur functional morphology, physiology, and systematics using cladistic methodology - in short, how professional paleontologists and dinosaur experts go about their work, and why they find it so rewarding.
The book is spectacularly illustrated by John Sibbick, a world-famous illustrator of dinosaurs, commissioned exclusively for this book.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:500 pages, 25 Halftones, unspecified; 225 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/02/2005
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- ISBN:9780521811729
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:500 pages, 25 Halftones, unspecified; 225 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/02/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521811729