(eBook PDF) Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0521282373
- ISBN-13 : 978-0521282376
- Author: David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, John Sibbick
Updated with the material that instructors want, Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to non-science majors through its narrative of scientific concepts rather than endless facts. It now contains new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section on the evolution of the dinosaurs and new photographs to help students engage with geology, natural history and evolution. The authors ground the text in the language of modern evolutionary biology, phylogenetic systematics, and teach students to examine the paleontology of dinosaurs exactly as the professionals in the field do using these methods to reconstruct dinosaur relationships. Beautifully illustrated, lively and engaging, this edition continues to encourage students to ask questions and assess data critically, enabling them to think like a scientist.
Table contents:
Part I. Remembrance of Things Past
1. To Catch a Dinosaur
2. Dinosaur Days
3. Who’s Related to Whom – and How Do We Know?
4. Who Are the Dinosaurs?
5. In The Beginning
Part II. Saurischia: Meat, Might, Muscle, and Magnitude
6. Theropoda I: Nature Red In Tooth and Claw
7. Theropoda II: Meet the Theropods
8. Theropoda III: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds
9. Sauropodomorpha: The Big, the Bizarre, and the Majestic
Part III. Ornithischia: Armored, Horned, and Duck-Billed Dinosaurs
10. Thyreophora: the Armor-bearers
11. Marginocephalia: Bumps, Bosses, and Beaks
12. Ornithopoda: Mighty Mesozoic Masticators
Part IV. Endothermy, Endemism, and Extinction
13. The Paleobiology of Dinosaurs I
14. The Paleobiology of Dinosaurs II
15. The Flowering of the Mesozoic
16. A History of Dinosaur Paleontology Through the Ideas of Dinosaur Paleontologists
17. The Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction: The Frill is Gone
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