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Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History

By David E. Fastovsky , David B. Weishampel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780521889964, 0521889960, 9780521719025
LCC
QE861.4 .F27 2009
Open Library ID
OL17031048M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32888662 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
394\395
Topic
Biology
Library
Great Science Textbooks DVD Library 2007
Time added
2009-10-26 09:21:54
Биологические дисциплины;Теория эволюции

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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