Dinosaurs: a concise natural history / David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel

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Preface to second edition.. Preface to first edition: why a natural history of dinosaurs?.. To the student.. To the instructor.. Dedication.. Part I : .. Reaching Back in Time.. 1 To catch a dinosaur.. Objectives.. Dinosaur tales.. Fossils.. Collecting.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 2 Dinosaur days.. Objectives.. When did dinosaurs live and how do we know?.. Continents and climates.. Climates during the time of the dinosaurs?.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. Background 2.1 - Chemistry quick 'n dirty.. Background 2.2 - Plate tectonics.. 3 Who's related to whom - and how do we know?.. Objectives.. Who are you?.. Evolution.. Phylogenetic systematics - the reconstruction of phylogeny.. Box 3.1 - Wristwatches: when is a watch a watch?.. Science = testing hypotheses.. Science in the popular media.. Summary.. Appendix 3.1 - What is "evolution"?.. Selected reading.. Topic questions.. 4 Who are the dinosaurs?.. Objectives.. Finding the history of life.. In the beginning.. Tetrapoda.. Box 4.1 - Fish and chips.. Box 4.2 - What, if anything, is a "reptile?".. Diapsida.. Dinosaurs.. Ornithischia and Saurischia.. Box 4.3 - Stance: it's both who you are and what you do.. Summary .. Selected readings .. Topic questions.. Part II : .. Ornithischia: Armored, Horned, and Duck-Billed Dinosaurs.. What makes an ornithischian an ornithischian?.. Chew on this! Ornithischia: the big picture.. Selected readings.. 5 Thyreophorans: the armor-bearers.. Objectives.. Thyreophora.. Eurypoda: Stegosauria - hot plates.. Box 5.1 - The poetry of dinosaurs.. Box 5.2 - Dino brains.. Eurypoda: Ankylosauria - mass and gas.. The evolution of Thyreophora.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 6 Marginocephalia: bumps, bosses, and beaks.. Objectives.. Marginocephalia.. Marginocephalia: Pachycephalosauria - In Domes We Trust.. The evolution of Pachycephalosauria

Marginocephalia: Ceratopsia - horns and all the frills.. The evolution of Ceratopsia.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 7 Ornithopoda: the tuskers, antelopes, and "mighty ducks" of the Mesozoic.. Objectives.. Ornithopoda.. The evolution of Ornithopoda.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. Part III : .. Saurischia: Meat, Might, and Magnitude.. Saurischia: the big picture.. Selected readings.. 8 Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic.. Objectives.. Sauropodomorpha.. Prosauropoda.. Sauropoda.. Box 8.1 - Every breath you take.. The evolution of Sauropodomorpha.. Box 8.2 - The recapitation of "Brontosaurus".. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 9 Theropoda I: nature red in tooth and claw.. Objectives.. Theropoda.. Theropod lives and lifestyles.. Box 9.1 - Triceratops spoils or spoiled Triceratops?.. Box 9.2 - Dinosaur zombies.. The evolution of Theropoda.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 10 Theropoda II: the origin of birds.. Objectives.. Birds.. Feathered theropods and the ancestry of living birds.. Box 10.1 - Plus ça change ... .. Feathers without flight.. What, if anything, is a bird?.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 11 Theropoda III: early birds.. Objectives.. Mesozoic birds.. Evolution of Aves.. Box 11.1 - Molecular evolution and the origin of Aves.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. Part IV: Endothermy, Endemism, Origin, and Extinction.. 12 Dinosaur thermoregulation: some like it hot.. Objectives.. The way they were.. Physiology: temperature talk.. Box 12.1 - Chain of fuels.. What about dinosaurs?.. Box 12.2 - Warm-bloodedness: to have and to have hot.. Box 12.3 - In the tracks of dinosaurs.. Box 12.4 - Weighing in.. Box 12.5 - Dinosaur smarts.. Different strokes for different folks?.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 13 The flowering of the Mesozoic.. Objectives

Dinosaurs in the Mesozoic Era.. Box 13.1 - The shape of tetrapod diversity.. Box 13.2 - Counting dinosaurs.. Plants and dinosaurian herbivores.. Box 13.3 - Dinosaurs invent flowering plants.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 14 A history of paleontology through ideas.. Objectives.. The idea of ideas.. In the beginning.. Box 14.1 - Indiana Jones and the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History.. The nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.. Box 14.2 - Sir Richard Owen: brilliance and darkness.. Box 14.3 - Dinosaur wars in the nineteenth century: boxer versus puncher.. Box 14.4 - Louis Dollo and the beasts of Bernissart.. Box 14.5 - Rollin' on the river.. The second part of the twentieth century to today.. Box 14.6 - "Mr Bones".. Box 14.7 - Tendaguru!.. Box 14.8 - Franz Baron Nopsca: Transylvanian dinosaurs and espionage.. Box 14.9 - Young Turks and old turkeys.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 15 Dinosaurs: in the beginning.. Objectives.. In the beginning ... .. Archosauria.. Dinosauria.. Box 15.1 - A Phylogenetic classification.. Box 15.2 - No dates; no rates.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. 16 The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction: the frill is gone.. Objectives.. How important were the deaths of a few dinosaurs?.. Geological record of the latest Cretaceous.. Biological record of the latest Cretaceous.. Box 16.1 - Extinction.. Box 16.2 - Dinosaurs: all wrong for mass extinctions.. Extinction hypotheses.. Box 16.3 - The real reason the dinosaurs became extinct.. Summary.. Selected readings.. Topic questions.. Glossary.. Figure credits.. Index of genera.. Index of subjects

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. It now contains new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section on 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. Beautifully illustrated, lively and engaging, this edition continues to encourage students to ask questions and assess data critically, enabling them to think like a scientist. • Unlike other introductory books, Dinosaurs is not a list of facts and figures and instead is concept-based, encouraging students to consider dinosaurs as a series of scientific questions to be answered. • Addresses the paleontology of dinosaurs exactly as the professionals in the field do: using phylogenetic systematic methods to reconstruct dinosaur relationships. • The dinosaurs are brought to life in specially commissioned drawings from the acclaimed dinosaur illustrator, John Sibbick. eng