Libros
David E. Fastovsky y David B. Weishampel · Cambridge University Press, 2012
"Updated with the material that instructors want, Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to non-science majors through its narrative of scientific concepts rather than endless facts. Now with new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section of the evolution of the dinosaurs, and new photographs to help students engage with geology, natural history, and evolution. The authors ground the text in the language of modern evolutionary biology, phylogenetic systematics, and teach students to examine the paleontology of dinosaurs exactly as the professionals in the field do using these methods to reconstruct dinosaur relationships"--
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Universitario · En inglés
Donald F. Glut
McFarland & Company, 2007
A fifth supplement to ""Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia"", this volume includes a discussion of the Mesozoic Era, covers discoveries in paleontology, and furthers the ectothermy/ endothermy debate from previous installments.
Divulgación · En inglés
Kirk R. Johnson, Richard Stucky
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2002
Divulgación · En inglés
Christopher McGowan
Basic Books, 2002
Set in nineteenth-century England, The Dragon Seekers chronicles the amazing discoveries of the first fossilists, whose findings in geology and paleontology led to the discovery of the age of dinosaurs. The intriguing cast of characters includes Mary Anning, a working-class woman who became one of the most successful…
Universitario · En inglés
John C. Avise
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biological traits…
