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Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds - Couverture rigide

Paul, Gregory S.

 
9780801867637: Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds
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ISBN 10 : 0801867630 ISBN 13 : 9780801867637
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Voted Best Book of 2002 by Readers of Prehistoric Times Magazine

Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds presents the most recent work of renowned evolutionary scientist and dinosaur illustrator Gregory Paul. Dinosaurs of the Air synthesizes the growing body of evidence which suggests that modern-day birds have evolved from theropod dinosaurs of prehistoric times. Paul argues provocatively for the idea that the ancestor-descendant relationship between the dinosaurs and birds can on occasion be reversed, and that many dinosaurs were secondarily flightless descendants of creatures we would regard as birds.

Controversial and comprehensive, Dinosaurs of the Air also offers new, firsthand interpretations of major fossils; a balanced, rewarding discussion of the ways we think flight may have evolved (comparing "ground up" and "trees down" scenarios); a close look at the famous urvogel Archaeopteryx, discussing what it can and cannot tell us about bird origins; and in-depth analyses of bird and theropod phylogenetics. Full of rich detail for the specialist but accessible to the intelligent lay reader, the book includes the author's own stunning illustrations and a technical appendix which provides information, for example, on body mass/wing dimension relationships and avian/dinosaurian metabolics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory S. Paul is a freelance scientist and scientific illustrator specializing in dinosaur evolution. Illustrations from his book Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, along with specific skeletal studies of theropods he was commissioned to prepare, were used in the making of the Jurassic Park movies.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801867630
ISBN 13 
9780801867637
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
472
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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