Dinosaurs : a concise natural history /
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. Now with new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section of the evolution of the dinosaurs, a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
| Summary: | 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. Now with new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section of 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 408 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781107010796 (hbk.) 1107010799 (hbk.) 9780521282376 (pbk.) 0521282373 (pbk.) |