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The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging
introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data
critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of
previous editions, Dinosaurs has been thoroughly updated to include
new discoveries in the field, such as the toothed bird specimens
found in China and recent discoveries of dinosaur soft anatomy.
Illustrations by leading paleontological illustrator John Sibbick
and new, carefully-chosen photographs, clearly show how dinosaurs
looked, lived and their role in Earth history. Making science
accessible and relevant through clear explanations and extensive
illustrations, the text guides students through the dinosaur
groups, emphasizing scientific concepts rather than presenting
endless facts. Grounded in the common language of modern
evolutionary biology - phylogenetic systematics - students learn to
think about dinosaurs the way that professional paleontologists do.
The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging
introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data
critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of
previous editions, Dinosaurs has been thoroughly updated to include
new discoveries in the field, such as the toothed bird specimens
found in China and recent discoveries of dinosaur soft anatomy.
Illustrations by leading paleontological illustrator John Sibbick
and new, carefully-chosen photographs, clearly show how dinosaurs
looked, lived and their role in Earth history. Making science
accessible and relevant through clear explanations and extensive
illustrations, the text guides students through the dinosaur
groups, emphasizing scientific concepts rather than presenting
endless facts. Grounded in the common language of modern
evolutionary biology - phylogenetic systematics - students learn to
think about dinosaurs the way that professional paleontologists do.
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 the
works of many individuals, but a unique, cohesive perspective on
Dinosauria. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of new, specially
commissioned illustrations by John Sibbick, world-famous
illustrator of dinosaurs, the volume includes multi-page drawings
as well as sketches and diagrams. First edition Hb (1996):
0-521-44496-9 David E. Fastovsky is Professor of Geosciences at the
University of Rhode Island. Fastovsky, the author of numerous
scientific publications dealing with Mesozoic vertebrate faunas and
their ancient environments, is also scientific co-Editor of
Geology. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork studying dinosaurs
and their environments in Montana, North Dakota, Arizona, Mexico,
and Mongolia. David B. Weishampel is a professor at the Center for
Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University,
School of Medicine. Weishampel is best known for discovering,
researching, and naming several rare European dinosaur species.
During the 1980s Weishampel gained fame for his work with American
paleontologist Jack Horner and later named the famous plant-eating,
egg-laying Orodromeus, Horner. Now, a decade after his pioneering
studies with Horner, Weishampel is most widely known for his
current work on the Romanian dinosaur fauna. He is the author and
co-author of many titles, including The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906
(Norton, 2003); The Dinosauria, (University of California, 1990);
and Dinosaurs of the East Coast, (Johns Hopkins University Press,
1996).
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