About this title: Dinosaurs have become so popular that their flying relatives are often neglected, even though they are still among us. Birds, the "living dinosaurs", are successful vertebrates which have evolved, adapted and survived over a period of 225 million years. This text is a detailed, illustrated review of the fossil record of birds in a modern context. Palaeontologist, Chatterjee, provides a chronology documenting the long odyssey of birds since Protoavis - which may have taken to the air some 75 million years before the widely known "first bird", Archaeopterix. Throughout the text, the author ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780801856150ISBN:0801856159
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801856150ISBN:0801856159
Description: Good. 0801856159 Large hardcover and dust jacket ex-library with typical marks; else, VG. Text is unmarked and binding is tight. read more
Edition: Third Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780801856150ISBN:0801856159
Description: Fine in Good jacket. Hardbound Text block, eps and bopards/spine solid, clean and unmarked save for an old bookstore stamp, sen on the ffep. Book is still tight. DJ is now in mylar. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997
Description: pp. xvi, 312, 92+ text figs and maps. Cloth, DJ, 4to. First detailed, illustrated, and comprehensive review of the avian fossil record in a modern phylogenetic context. Fine copy in fine DJ. read more
Description: Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1997. 312 pages. 3rd printing. Oversize Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Near Fine in Fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0801856159. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,, Baltimore:
Date Published: 1997.
ISBN-13:9780801856150ISBN:0801856159
Description: Quarto, dustwrapper, 312 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW. A different approach to the evolution of birds to that described in Feduccia's book The age of birds. read more
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