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| View Larger Image | Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, Expanded and Updated
by Mark Norell, Lowell Dingus, Eugene Gaffney
| | List Price: | $24.95 |  | | 1 New starting at: | $6.00 | | 23 Used starting at: | $1.81 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1312252 | | Studio: | University of California Press | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 239 | | Publication Date: | April 08, 2000 | | Publisher: | University of California Press |
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Product Description
Expanded and updated
This handsome book addresses the questions of what the fossil record tells us about the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs, what their relationship to the rest of the organic world was, and what we can learn from them about our own place in the history of life on our planet. This edition has been updated throughout, with a new final chapter that details exciting recent discoveries such as the feathered dinosaur fossils in China.
ALERT: ONE LINE IS MISSING FROM PAGE XIII OF THIS BOOK. THE COMPLETE LINE SHOULD READ:
"We hope that the following pages will introduce you to some of these questions."
This error will be corrected in future editions of the book. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 1 review)
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What do we really know about dinosaurs? 
After visiting the National Musuem of Natural History, I wondered about many of the claims that the museum made. So I decided to read a book about the "terrible lizards" and found out what I had guessed -- the study of dinosaurs and their fossils is not an exact science and many of the fundamental questions we have about them cannot be answered, including:How old are they? How fast were they? How big were they? What did they look like? What color were they? What is their relation to birds? How are fossils aged? Do we have any dinosaur DNA? The authors of this book do a good job at trying to answer many of these questions about dinosaurs, but in the end their explanations merely lay out the science of guesswork. The first part of this book is fifty questions about dinosaurs, and I would recommend this section to anyone interested in the subject. The next two sections are about dinosaurs digs and specific dinosaur species, and is a little bit extensive for the "casual dino reader."
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