The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
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The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
Cambridge University Press, 2005
2nd ed.
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction
- 2. Back to the past: the Mesozoic era
- 3. Discovering order in the natural world
- 4. Interrelationships of vertebrates
- 5. The origin of Dinosauria
- Part II. Ornithischia: Armored, Horned, and Duck-Billed Dinosaurs: 6. Stegosauria: hot plates
- 7. Ankylosauria: mas and gas
- 8. Pachycephalosauria: ramroads of the Cretaceous
- 9. Ceratopsia: horns and all the frills
- 10. Ornithopoda: the tuskers, antelopes, and 'mighty ducks' of the Mesozoic
- Part III. Saurischia: Predators and Giants: 11. Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic
- 12. Theropoda I: nature red in tooth and claw
- 13. Theropoda II: the origin of birds
- 14. Theropoda III: the early evolution of birds
- Part IV. Endothermy, Environments, and Extinction: 15. Dinosaur thermoregulation: some like it hot
- 16. Patterns in dinosaur evolution
- 17. Reconstructing extinctions: the art of science
- 18. The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction: the frill is gone
- Glossary
- Subject index
- Generic index
- Author index.
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