The rise of birds : 225 million years of evolution.
"A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2015.
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Edición: | Second edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mesozoic Pompeii
- The evolution of an airframe
- The origin of birds
- Archaeopteryx : an ancient wing
- Protoavis : a precocious Triassic bird
- Basal avialans : the long-tailed birds
- Pygostylia : the short-tailed birds
- Enantiornithes : global Cretaceous birds
- Ornithuromorphs : the prelude to modern birds
- The end-Cretaceous mass extinction
- The avian revolution begins
- The origin of flight
- Eggs, embryos and heterochrony
- Feathers and footprints
- The feeding mechanism and cranial kinesis
- Birds and humans.