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The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs 2nd Edition

by David E. Fastovsky (Author), David B. Weishampel (Author), John Sibbick (Illustrator)
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Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur origins, diversity, and extinction is designed as a series of successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur paleobiology, such as "warm-bloodedness," birds as living dinosaurs, the new, non-flying feathered dinosaurs, dinosaur functional morphology, and cladistic methods in systematics. Its explicitly phylogenetic approach to the group is that taken by dinosaur specialists. The book is not an edited compilation of the works of many individuals, but a unique, cohesive perspective on Dinosauria. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of new, specially commissioned illustrations by John Sibbick, world-famous illustrator of dinosaurs, the volume includes multi-page drawings as well as sketches and diagrams. First edition Hb (1996): 0-521-44496-9 David E. Fastovsky is Professor of Geosciences at the University of Rhode Island. Fastovsky, the author of numerous scientific publications dealing with Mesozoic vertebrate faunas and their ancient environments, is also scientific co-Editor of Geology. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork studying dinosaurs and their environments in Montana, North Dakota, Arizona, Mexico, and Mongolia. David B. Weishampel is a professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. Weishampel is best known for discovering, researching, and naming several rare European dinosaur species. During the 1980s Weishampel gained fame for his work with American paleontologist Jack Horner and later named the famous plant-eating, egg-laying Orodromeus, Horner. Now, a decade after his pioneering studies with Horner, Weishampel is most widely known for his current work on the Romanian dinosaur fauna. He is the author and co-author of many titles, including The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906 (Norton, 2003); The Dinosauria, (University of California, 1990); and Dinosaurs of the East Coast, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
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    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    February 7, 2005
  6. Language
    English
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    8.25 x 0.75 x 10.25 inches
  8. Print length
    485 pages
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"I'm hard pressed to think of another available book as accessible as this for a novice to learn about dinosaurs." American Scientist

"The presentation of the book is superb...for palaeontologists it is the best single book on the subject." Historical Biology

"Amply fulfils its objective of providing an authoritative, stimulating and lively introduction to dinosaurs...recommend[ed] to interested general readers as the best available and thoroughly accessible account of dinosaurs and how they fit in with current scientific thinking." New Scientist

"Written in an easy, accessible style, this text will appeal to the non-specialist with an interest in dinosaurs. A series of enjoyable essays...a comprehensive text that is well suited for an entry level course on dinosaurs. Nicely illustrated, with a short bibliography at the end of each essay in the form of a list of important readings." - Southeastern Naturalist

"...a very interesting and fascinating book... Very well illustrated.... The authors are true specialists.... This book is addressed to a large public: novice and/or keen readers, researchers and teachers.... Concise and clear, the book will give satisfaction to most readers."
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"...well-written, highly visual, engaging, and informative book...with much up-to-date information on virtually all aspects of dinosaur biology. ... The volume's strength is its clear explanation of anatomy within the context of natural history ... highly recommended." - CHOICE

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0521811724
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 7, 2005
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 485 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780521811729
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521811729
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.75 x 10.25 inches
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  • Z. G Zinzel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend this older edition of this college textbook. Some of it may be superseded by newer editions that cost much more
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2017
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    EXCELLENT college textbook on this topic. This is a previous edition, so newer editions probably have much more up-to-date information that probably supersedes what was known/understood at the time this edition was published. My recollection is that I paid about $15 for this book used, and if I wanted to purchase the latest edition it is probably more than $100.
    However, my guess is that most of the background information is still 100% in alignment with the best, current thinking/research on this rapidly moving topic
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  • randomvar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Really Excellent text
    Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019
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    Comprehensive in the extreme - tough read. But if
    you really want to get the last word on this subject, then
    this IS your read.
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  • Katherine Streit
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
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    Bought for my son as required reading before a dig. He said it was okay but a little outdated.
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  • Bill Mullin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Key reference book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020
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    It is an up to date and wonderful reference for avid paleontology fans.
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  • Charles
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth buyin.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2015
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    A basic introduction for academic class work. The authors provide a basis for reading journal articles in greater depth.
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  • Why?
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2016
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    Great book for the class that I am taking. Wonderful price.
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  • steve costin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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    IN VERY GOOD SHAPE. CHEAP PRICE. GREAT KIDS PRESENTS
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  • Katsamakas Nikolaos
    2.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant introduction to boredom
    Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2009
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    Producing a complete and thorough book about Dinosauria can never be an easy task, and the authors have made a remarkable job by just trying. Yet, the book, in my opinion, fails to reach certain standards. There are some details that can turn a good book into a great one, and this book does not have them. First, the authors have a talent in creating literary boredom. The reason is not that they write in a technical fashion. In fact, I found the text quite, but not completely technical (one should read "Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath" to understand what "technical" really means). The authors just do not know how to write in an interesting way. It's a pitty, because few subjects can be more interesting than Dinosaurs, so I guess one must have a special talent in order to write something boring about these animals. Even with the boring style, the book could have been great, if it was not for the second sin. There is a cluster of missing details, details that are important. The constant failure to mention the approximate age of the species, other than some vague "Late Cretaceous", is annoying. It would have been very easy just to write the numbers (in mya)next to every species name when it is first mentioned in the text, or on the cladogram. Speaking of cladograms, the book contains many of them, but I find them to be crude in their construction. There is an obvious lack of a good general cladogram for all Dinosauria, along with approximate ages of the appearance of every clade; while for a book that is fond of cladistics, the one on p.322 is WRONG (it presents T.rex as a member of Maniraptora).

    I believe all these are the result of a third sin: the authors are unable to understand what is important and what is not. Thus, they fail to elaborate in some of the most important questions. Why were dinosaurs so big, why did they stay big for tens of millions of years, and hy did mammals never managed to get equally big? The authors just scratch the surface of the topic. Their description of the Mesozoic world in Ch.2 is inadequately short and vague. If I were a college professor and a student of mine produced Ch.5 (on the origin of dinosaurs) I would have rejected it as utterly amateuristic and inefficiently short. In a similar fashion, the chapter about land-dwelling Theropoda, the most fascinating of all dinosaurs, is too short and remarkably boring. Finally, in the end of every chapter we have a long and effectively boring list of the most useless information: who discovered what and when. The history of dinosaur discoveries can be an interesting subject, but it is not of use when there is a complete failure on giving information about when these magnificent animals lived. As a final touch in this masterpiece of boredom and mediocrity, there seems to be a strange sort of conspiracy to hide the fact that T.rex was not the largest theropod, coupled with a failure to present an illustration of the skull of important theropods, such as Carcharodontosaurus, or Baryonyx.

    So, if one wants to merely have a book about dinosaurs in one's library, this one is fine. As far as it concerns what is really written in the book, someone else must take up the task to write a new book. This one, despite the word "evolution" in its title, all it does is just to describe the categories of dinosaurs, order after order. It is as if the authors cannot understand what the word means. They say little about the evolution of the dinosaurs, almost nothing of their natural histories, they fail to balance their style between purely technical and entertaining, and they finally fail to emphasize the important issues. If one wants to buy a book about dinosaurs, I really cannot understand why one should pay for something that can never even compare with the quality of the topics about dinosaurs in Wikipedia.
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  • trex181
    4.0 out of 5 stars 恐竜フアン座右の書として
    Reviewed in Japan on February 27, 2020
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    いささか古い本なので、内容(学説紹介)も最新ではない。温血説、羽毛説、惑星衝突説などが主流になる前のもの。でも、多岐にわたる記述でいま読み返しても結構面白い。出版時は高価(6,800円)で、もっぱら図書館で読んだが、中古が安くなったので購入。
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  • M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good
    Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2019
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    Good
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  • H. Waring
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, entertaining, informative
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2012
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    A brilliant book which I purchased for a 2nd year undergraduate palaeobiology module - and read twice before the module even started!

    There is much more information than graduate level requires and an extensive list of references at the end of chapters which is incredibly helpful for coursework. However I would also encourage anyone with an interest in dinosaurs to get this book - it doesn't contain scientific jargon unnecessarily (or unexplained) and is beautifully written with imagination-provoking drawings.

    It is a pleasure to read and gripping for anyone with an interest in Dinosaurs, and details how fossils are made and excavated, changes in the earth's surface and climate and many other details to flesh out the Dinosaur facts.

    And if that's not enough it really helped my grade!
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  • Roger Rappaz
    4.0 out of 5 stars Les dinosaures à la portée de tous
    Reviewed in France on February 21, 2010
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    Livre tout à fait intéressant, qui survole la nature, l'évolution et l'extinction des dinosaures.
    Livre fouillé, mais point trop savant.
    (de plus l'exemplaire du livre acheté d'occasion a une histoire: il a bourlingué à travers le monde )
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  • AuPingFai
    2.0 out of 5 stars Highlighted
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2019
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    Good outward appeareance but found book heaily highlighted upon reading
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