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Discovering Dinosaurs. Evolution, Extinction, And The Lessons Of Prehistory: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, Expanded and Updated - Tapa blanda

Dingus, Lowell; Norell, Mark; Gaffney, Eugene

 
9780520225015: Discovering Dinosaurs. Evolution, Extinction, And The Lessons Of Prehistory: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, Expanded and Updated

Sinopsis

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, and the authors have provided a new final chapter.

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Mark A. Norell, Chairman of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Natural History, has been co-leader of the Museum's Gobi Desert yearly expeditions since 1990, in the course of which he has discovered fossil remains of a number of new species of dinosaurs, a dinosaur nesting its eggs, and a unique dinosaur embryo. Eugene S. Gaffney is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum. He is one of the world's leading specialists on fossil turtles. Lowell Dingus is director of the Museum's Fossil Halls renovation. He has served as head geologist on the Gobi Desert expeditions.

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