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020			_a9780511805189 (ebook)
020			_z9780521889964 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQE861.4 _b.F27 2009
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100	1		_aFastovsky, David E., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDinosaurs : _ba concise natural history / _cDavid E. Fastovsky and David B. Weishampel ; with illustrations by John Sibbick.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2009.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 379 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aTo catch a dinosaur -- Dinosaur days -- Who's related to whom--and how do we know? -- Who are the dinosaurs? -- Thyreophorans : the armor-bearers -- Marginocephalia : bumps, bosses, and beaks -- Ornithopoda : the tuskers, antelopes, and "mighty ducks" of the Mesozoic -- Sauropodomorpha : the big, the bizarre, and the majestic -- Theropoda I : nature red in tooth and claw -- Theropoda II : the origin of birds -- Theropoda III : early birds -- 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.
520			_aFrom 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.
650		0	_aDinosaurs.
650		0	_aDinosaurs _xExtinction.
650		0	_aVertebrates _xEvolution.
650		0	_aPaleontology _yMesozoic.
700	1		_aWeishampel, David B., _d1952- _eauthor.
700	1		_aSibbick, John, _eillustrator.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521889964
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511805189
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