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Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur origins, diversity, and extinction is designed as a series of successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur paleobiology, such as "warm-bloodedness," birds as living dinosaurs, the new, non-flying feathered dinosaurs, dinosaur functional morphology, and cladistic methods in systematics. Its explicitly phylogenetic approach to the group is that taken by dinosaur specialists. The book is not an edited compilation of...
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This is a comprehensive student textbook on dinosaurs that non-specialists will also find fascinating. It is the only comprehensive text that takes an explicitly phylogenetic approach to dinosaurs. The geological context of dinosaurs, however, is also stressed, and dinosaurs are presented in the context of contemporary plate tectonic and climatic settings. All of the discussion is couched in lively and accessible language, and the book is lavishly illustrated...
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David Fastovsky is Professor of Geology at the University of Rhode Island and tutor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. His interest in dinosaurs started as a child when he read about a 1920s fossil collector's adventures in the Gobi Desert. Dinosaurs won out years later when he had the tough decision of choosing between a career in music (he takes his viola on his many...
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0521811724
- ISBN 13 9780521811729
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages485
- IllustratorSibbick John
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