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Product Details

* Paperback: 394 pages

* Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 12, 2009)

* Language: English

* ISBN-10: 052171902X

* ISBN-13: 978-0521719025

Editorial Reviews

Review

'I am excited to see that they authors have selected not to overwhelm the student with detail.'

Mark Oiumette, Hardin-Simmons University

'Does an excellent job of explaining cladistics.'

Bill Zinsmeister, Purdue University

'Well written ...the author's sense of humor makes it enjoyable to read; it summarizes most of the important topics in dinosaur paleontology using current information.'

Carol Waddell-Sheets, Canisius College

'This is an outstanding contribution for anyone teaching a course involving dinosaurs... it is reasonably short and very much up to date.'

Sherwood Wise, Florida State University

'It's a nice length - subjects are discussed with the appropriate amount of depth and level of coverage. The writing style and tone is engaging and I like the incorporation of phylogeny.'

David Varricchio, Montana State University

'Very up-to-date information ... superior illustration.'

John Taylor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

"...It's the best fit for my course of any book out there because it's focused less on the dinosaurs themselves and more on how dinosaurs illustrate important lessons in the history of life. ...I'm definitely going to adopt it for my course."

-Dr. J Bret Bennington, Hofstra University

Product Description

From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs comes an introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists designed to excite readers about science by using dinosaurs to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history and evolution. While focusing 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 fills a gap between the glossy, fact-driven dinosaur books and the higher-level academic books, addressing the paleontology of dinosaurs exactly as professionals in the field do.

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