Living dinosaurs: the evolutionary history of modern birds
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwell 2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling new discoveries on almost every continent. Controversies about whether dinosaurs had real feathers or whether birds were related to dinosaurs have been swept away and replaced by new and more difficult questions: How old is the avian lineage? How did birds learn to fly? Which birds survived the great extinction that ended the Mesozoic Era and how did the avian genome evolve? Answers to these questions may help us understand how the different kinds of living birds are related to one another and how they evolved into their current niches. More importantly, they may help us understand what we need to do to help them survive the dramatic impacts of human activity on the planet
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 422 pages, [8] pages of color plates)
ISBN:9781119990475
1119990475
9781119990451
1119990459
1283405229
9781283405225
9780470656662
0470656662

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