这是非科学专业的理想教材，生动有趣的介绍鼓励学生提问，批判性地评估数据，像科学家一样思考。在前几版成功的基础上，根据老师和学生的反馈，恐龙被重新组织和广泛改写。它通过清晰的解释和广泛的插图，继续让科学变得容易理解和相关。
为了反映最新的化石发现并纳入新的分类群，本文对学生们进行了更新，引导他们了解恐龙群，强调科学概念，而不是提出无穷无尽的事实。它以现代进化生物学的共同语言——系统发育系统学——为基础，因此学生们可以像专业古生物学家那样研究恐龙。这本书贯穿了羽毛恐龙这一新兴主题，以及羽毛的诸多含义，并在这本图文并茂的书中加入了令人惊叹的新照片，这本书现在全彩呈现。
Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, 3rd Edition
The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of the previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganised and extensively rewritten in response to instructor and student feedback. It continues to make science accessible and relevant through its clear explanations and extensive illustrations.
Updated to reflect recent fossil discoveries and to include new taxa, the text guides students through the dinosaur groups, emphasising scientific concepts rather than presenting endless facts. It is grounded in the common language of modern evolutionary biology – phylogenetic systematics – so that students examine dinosaurs as professional paleontologists do. The key emerging theme of feathered dinosaurs, and the many implications of feathers, have been integrated throughout the book, highlighted by the inclusion of stunning new photographs in this beautifully illustrated text, now in full colour throughout.
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