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Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Donald R. Prothero
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Description for Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 120 illus. BIC Classification: RBX; RNPG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark style and wit to an increasingly relevant subject of concern, Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 million years to their effects on plants and animals. In particular, he contrasts the extinctions that ended the Cretaceous period, which wiped out the dinosaurs, with those of the later Eocene and Oligocene epochs. Prothero begins with the "greenhouse of the dinosaurs," the global-warming episode that dominated the ... Read more
Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark style and wit to an increasingly relevant subject of concern, Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 million years to their effects on plants and animals. In particular, he contrasts the extinctions that ended the Cretaceous period, which wiped out the dinosaurs, with those of the later Eocene and Oligocene epochs. Prothero begins with the "greenhouse of the dinosaurs," the global-warming episode that dominated the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231146609
SKU
V9780231146609
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About Donald R. Prothero
Donald R. Prothero is professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and the Schuchert Award (for an outstanding paleontologist under forty) in 1991. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twenty-four books and over two hundred scientific ... Read more
Reviews for Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Prothero has woven together a gripping tale that will fascinate readers with many levels of expertise. Fossil News Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs should be on the suggested reading list for any undergraduate interested in pursuing paleontology, and as a paleobiological statement, shows that paleontology is more than (fossilized) sticks and stones. Geology Today ...this is a very enriching, stimulating, and, ... Read more