Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Fastovsky, David E. (1954-....)
Weishampel, David B. (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Dinosaurs [Texte imprimé] : a concise natural history / David E. Fastovsky,... David B. Weishampel,... ; with illustrations by John Sibbick
Édition : 3rd ed.
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge university press, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-477 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm
Comprend : Remembrance of things past ; To catch a dinosaur ; Dinosaur days ; Who's related
to whom : and how do we know? ; Who are the dinosaurs? ; Dinosaurs : in the beginning
; Saurischia : meat, might and magnitude ; Theropoda I : nature red in tooth and
claw ; Theropoda II : meet the theropods ; Theropoda III : the origin and early
evolution of birds ; Sauropodomorpha : the big, the bizarre, and the majestic ;
Ornithischia : armored, horned, and duck-billed dinosaur ; Thyreophorans : the armor-bearers
; Marginocephalia : bumps, bosses, and beaks ; Euornithopoda : magnificent mesozoic
herbivores ; Endothermy, endemism, and extinction ; Dinosaur thermoregulation :
some like it hot ; The flowering of the mesozoic ; A history of paleontology through
ideas ; The cretaceous, tertiary extinction : the frill is gone ; Glossary.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, comes a general
introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists, designed to excite readers
about science by using the ever-popular animals the dinosaurs to illustrate and discuss
geology, natural history and evolution. While it focuses 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 for younger readers,
and the higher-level academic books, addressing the palaeontology of dinosaurs exactly
as professionals in the field do
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Sibbick, John. Illustrateur
Sujet(s) : Dinosaures -- Évolution
Paléontologie -- Mésozoïque
Indice(s) Dewey :
567.9 (23e éd.) = Reptiles fossiles
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107135376. - ISBN 1107135370 (rel.). - ISBN 9781316501153. - ISBN 1316501159
(br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453268075
Notice n° :
FRBNF45326807
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
