The mistaken extinction
dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds
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Author
Contributions
- Rowe, Timothy, 1953- - Contributor
Publication
1998 - W.H. Freeman, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
83,000 words, Guess
Page Count
332 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL688728M
- ISBN-10071672944X
- OCLC Control Number60177212
- OCLC Control Numbermistakenextincti0000ding
- Library of Congress Control Number97035749
and 2 more
- Goodreads2704436
- LibraryThing340726
Classifications
- DDC567.9
- LCCQE862.D5 D4928 1998
Description
For centuries, science has been searching for clues to the disappearance of the dinosaurs without answering a critical question - Are all the dinosaurs really extinct? In The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, crackerjack paleontologists Lowell Dingus, President of Infoquest, a nonprofit education and research foundation, and former Director of the Fossil Hall Renovation at the American Museum of Natural History and Timothy Rowe, J. Nalle Gregory Regents Professor of Geology at the University of Texas, Austin, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Texas Memorial Museum lead us on an adventurous tour through the history of our own planet Earth. And they force us to face a shocking truthThe answer to that critical question is no.
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- The mistaken extinction: dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds
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