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The Dinosauria, Second Edition
D B (Ed) Weishampel
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Description for The Dinosauria, Second Edition
Paperback. Includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. This book offers documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, and discussion of the interface between geology and biology. Editor(s): Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmolska, Halszka. Num Pages: 880 pages, 330 line illustrations, 28 tables. BIC Classification: RBX; WNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 276 x 52. Weight in Grams: 2460.
When "The Dinosauria" was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as 'the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs' and 'an historically unparalleled compendium of information.' This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors - forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria - contribute definitive descriptions ... Read more
When "The Dinosauria" was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as 'the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs' and 'an historically unparalleled compendium of information.' This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors - forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria - contribute definitive descriptions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
880
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
880
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520254084
SKU
V9780520254084
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About D B (Ed) Weishampel
David B. Weishampel is a Professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is coauthor, with D. E. Fastovsky, of The Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs (1996) and coauthor, with L. Young, of The Dinosaurs of the East Coast (1996). Peter Dodson is Professor of Anatomy at the University of ... Read more
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