Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Weishampel, David B., 1952-
Sibbick, John.
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| ISBN: | 9781139129695
1139129694
0511477899
9780511477898
9780511805189
0511805187
9780521889964
0521889960
9780521719025
052171902X
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "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."--Jacket
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| Other form: | Print version: Fastovsky, David E. Dinosaurs. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521889964
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