Rise of the Dragon: Readings from Nature on the Chinese Fossil Record - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226284913 ISBN 13: 9780226284910

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal Nature.Rise of the Dragon gathers together sixteen of these original reports, some augmented with commentaries originally published in Nature's "News and Views" section.

Perhaps the best known of these new Chinese fossils are the famous feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning Province, which may help end one of the most intense debates in paleontology—whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. But other finds have been just as spectacular, such as the minutely preserved (to the cellular level) animal embryos of the 670 million-year-old Duoshantuo phosphorites, or the world's oldest known fish, from the Chengjiang formation in southwestern Yunnan Province.

Rise of the Dragon makes descriptions and detailed discussions of these important finds available in one convenient volume for paleontologists and serious fossil fans.

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Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature. He is the author of Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates and In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life and the editor of Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life, the last also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226284913
• ISBN 13: 9780226284910
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Herausgeber: Gee Henry
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