Dinosaurs
The Textbook
3rd Edition
Published on 23. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-07-303642-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text is intended for a one-quarter or one-semester introductory course on dinosaurs. It is a book that introduces dinosaur biology, geology, and the history of their discovery. It is a text that presents facts together with current ideas, notions, and controversies. Dr. Lucas presents dinosaurs as successful, living creatures that were merely different in appearance from animals living today. The book is designed to be understood by students with little scientific background as it teaches students not only how to use scientific methods, but how to synthesize data to create their own ideas.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Ill.d.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-303642-7 (9780073036427)
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Previous edition
Book
10/1996
2nd Edition
Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S.
€55.79
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Content
A dinosaur dictionary; a dinosaur family tree; dinosaur hunters; evolution, phylogeny and classification; fossils, sedimentary environments; and geologic time; the origin of dinosaurs; predatory dinosaurs; sauropodomorphs; ornithopods; stegosaurs and ankylosaurs; ceratopsinas and pachycephalosaurs; the dinosaurian world; dinosaur trace fossils; dinosaur biology and behaviour; hot-blooded dinosaurs? the origin of birds; dinosaur extinction; dinosaurs in the public eye. Appendix: a primer of dinosaur anatomy.