Vyhledávat v databázi titulů je možné dle ISBN, ISSN, EAN, č. ČNB, OCLC či vlastního identifikátoru. Vyhledávat lze i v databázi autorů dle id autority či jména.

Projekt ObalkyKnih.cz sdružuje různé zdroje informací o knížkách do jedné, snadno použitelné webové služby. Naše databáze v tuto chvíli obsahuje 2891754 obálek a 873249 obsahů českých a zahraničních publikací. Naše API využívá většina knihoven v ČR.

Registrovat »    Zapomenuté heslo?

Dinosaurs of the air : the evolution and loss of flight in dinosaurs and birds



Autor: Paul, Gregory S.
Rok: c2002
ISBN: 9780801867637
OKCZID: 110120899

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
PAUL, Gregory S. Dinosaurs of the air: the evolution and loss of flight in dinosaurs and birds. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, c2002, 460 s. ISBN 0-8018-6763-0.

Hodnocení: 4.5 / 5 (6 hlasů)


Anotace

 

Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds presents the most recent work of renowned evolutionary scientist and dinosaur illustrator Gregory Paul. Dinosaurs of the Air synthesizes the growing body of evidence which suggests that modern-day birds have evolved from theropod dinosaurs of prehistoric times. Paul argues provocatively for the idea that the ancestor-descendant relationship between the dinosaurs and birds can on occasion be reversed, and that many dinosaurs were secondarily flightless descendants of creatures we would regard as birds. Controversial and comprehensive, Dinosaurs of the Air also offers new, firsthand interpretations of major fossils; a balanced, rewarding discussion of the ways we think flight may have evolved (comparing "ground up" and "trees down" scenarios); a close look at the famous urvogel Archaeopteryx, discussing what it can and cannot tell us about bird origins; and in-depth analyses of bird and theropod phylogenetics. Full of rich detail for the specialist but accessible to the intelligent lay reader, the book includes the author's own stunning illustrations and a technical appendix which provides information, for example, on body mass/wing dimension relationships and avian/dinosaurian metabolics.


Dostupné zdroje

Amazon


Přidat komentář a hodnocení

Od: (127.0.0...)