Spencer Lucas

Dinosaurs (eBook, ePUB)

The Textbook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Geared towards a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook, sixth edition, is a concise and lucid presentation of the biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. It clarifies the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the various species while modeling the best approach for navigating new and existing research. Revised to reflect recent fossil discoveries and the current consensus on dinosaur science, this text moves through the major taxonomic groups-including theropods, sauropodomorphs, ornithopods, ceratopsians, pachycephalosaurs, stegosaurs, and ankylosaurs-and concludes with updated chapters on the behavior and extinction of the dinosaurs, their biological relationship to birds, and their representation (or misrepresentation) in art, literature, film, and other forms of popular culture.

The sixth edition represents a major revision of the leading text for an introductory course on dinosaurs, including comprehensive updates based on the latest scientific discoveries, research, and literature. With an extensive art program revised by leading paleoartists that features cutting-edge illustrations, it is a complete reader-friendly pedagogical package with extensive end-of-chapter summary tools, review questions, a detailed glossary, a dinosaur dictionary, and a comprehensive index.

Please visit our supplemental materials page (https://cup.columbia.edu/extras/supplement/dinosaurs-the-textbook-sixth-edition) to find study and teaching aides for both students and teachers using Dinosaurs: The Textbook, sixth edition in class.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231541848
• Artikelnr.: 49432814

Autorenporträt

Spencer G. Lucas is the curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He has published more than 500 scientific articles and authored or coedited close to twenty volumes, including Chinese Fossil Vertebrates (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Boxed Readings
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Evolution, Phylogeny, and Classification
3. Fossils, Sedimentary Environments, and Geologic Time
4. The Origin of Dinosaurs
5. Theropods
6. Sauropodomorphs
7. Ornithopods
8. Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs
9. Ceratopsians and Pachycephalosaurs
10. The Dinosaurian World
11. Dinosaur Hunters
12. Dinosaur Trace Fossils
13. Dinosaur Biology and Behavior
14. Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs?
15. Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds
16. The Extinction of Dinosaurs
17. Dinosaurs in the Public Eye
Appendix: A Primer of Dinosaur Anatomy
Glossary
A Dinosaur Dictionary
Index