THE RISE OF BIRDS: *

THE RISE OF BIRDS: *

225 MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION

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Editorial:
JOHNS HOPKINS U.P.
Any d'edició:
Matèria
Biología - Ecología - Comportamiento
ISBN:
978-1-4214-1590-1
Pàgines:
392
Enquadernació:
Cartoné
Idioma:
Inglés

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 the age of dinosaurs. He called it Protoavis, and the animal that owned these bones quickly became a contender for the title of "oldest known bird." In 1997, Chatterjee published his findings in the first edition of The Rise of Birds.

Since then Chatterjee and his colleagues have searched the world for more transitional bird fossils. And they have found them. This second edition of The Rise of Birds brings together a treasure trove of fossils that tell us far more about the evolution of birds than we once dreamed possible.

With no blind allegiance to what he once thought he knew, Chatterjee devours the new evidence and lays out the most compelling version of the birth and evolution of the avian form ever attempted. He takes us from Texas to Spain, China, Mongolia, Madagascar, Australia, Antarctica, and Argentina. He shows how, in the "Cretaceous Pompeii" of China, he was able to reconstruct the origin and evolution of flight of early birds from the feathered dinosaurs that lay among thousands of other amazing fossils.

Chatterjee takes us to where long-hidden bird fossils dwell. His compelling, occasionally controversial, revelations?accompanied by spectacular illustrations?are a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of "the feathered dinosaurs," from vertebrate paleontologists and ornithologists to naturalists and birders.

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Esta segunda edición reúne un minucioso examen de los fósiles que nos dicen mucho más acerca de la evolución de las aves de lo que uno podría imaginar. Sin seguir de manera ciega a lo que se pensaba que sabía, Chatterjee devora las nuevas pruebas y expone la versión más convincente del nacimiento y la evolución de las aves. Nos lleva desde Texas a España, China, Mongolia, Madagascar, Australia, Antártida y Argentina. El autor muestra cómo, en el Cretácico de China, se produjo la evolución del vuelo de las primeras aves desde los dinosaurios con plumas que se extendían entre los miles de otros fósiles increíbles.
Chatterjee nos lleva a los lugares donde se hallan los fósiles de aves, que han estado durante largo tiempo ocultos. Sus convincentes, en ocasiones controvertidas, revelaciones - acompañados de ilustraciones espectaculares - son una lectura obligada para cualquier persona con un interés serio en la evolución de "los dinosaurios emplumados", para los paleontólogos de vertebrados y en suma para los ornitólogos y naturalistas.