Dinosaurs: How We Know What We Know [1 ed.] 1138608165, 9781138608160

This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs

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Dinosaurs: How We Know What We Know [1 ed.]
1138608165, 9781138608160

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Mary Higby Schweitzer
Elena Rita Schroeter
Charles Doug Czajka

Table of contents :
Dedications
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1: How Do We Understand the Natural World? The Nature of Science and the Field of Paleontology
CHAPTER 2: How Do We Know When Dinosaurs Lived? Interpreting Earth’s History from Rocks
3: How Do We Explain Variation among Past and Present Organisms? Evolution and Evolutionary Mechanisms
4: How Do We Know Who Is Related to Whom? Systematics and Phylogenetic Relationships
5: How Do We Know When and How Life Began and Evolved? The Origin of Life and Evolution through Time
6: How Do We Use Anatomy of Living Animals to Understand Dinosaurs? Bones and Anatomy
7: How Do We Know What a DinosaurIs? Diagnosing and DefiningDinosauria
8: How Do We Name and Group Dinosaurs? Part I: Ornithischian Dinosaurs
9: How Do We Name and Group Dinosaurs? Part II: Saurischian Dinosaurs
10: How Do We Name and Group Mesozoic Animals That Are Not Dinosaurs? Pterosaurs, Marine Reptiles, Mammals, and Others
11: How Do We Know How Dinosaurs Became Part of the Fossil Record? Taphonomy and Fossilization
12: How Do We Interpret the Ecology of Dinosaurs? The Relationship of Dinosaurs to Their Physical and Biological Environments
13: How Do We Know How Dinosaurs Moved? Dinosaur Functional Morphology
14: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Looked Like? Dinosaur Appearance
15: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Ate? Direct and Indirect Evidence for Dinosaur Diets
16: How Do We Interpret Dinosaur Behavior? Dinosaur Trackways, Herding, and Pathologies
17: How Do We Know about Dinosaur Reproduction? Mating and Parental Care among Dinosaurs
18: How Do We Know If Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded, Cold-Blooded, Or Something in Between? Dinosau rPhysiology and Metabolism
19: How Do We Know Birds Are Dinosaurs? The Phylogeny of Maniraptoriformes and the Origin of Flight
20: How Do We Know about Extinctions? The End of the Dinosaur Reign and Other Mass Extinctions
Index

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