Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

Donald R. Prothero

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June, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages, 120 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14660-9
$29.50 / £20.50

Preface

1. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs

2. Bad Lands, Good Fossils

3. Magnets and Lasers

4. "Punk Eek" in the Badlands

5. Death of the Dinosaurs

6. Marine World

7. Rocky Mountain Jungles and Eels' Ears

8. From Greenhouse to Icehouse

9. Once and Future Greenhouse?

10. Kids, Dinosaurs, and the Future of Paleontology

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Evolution
• Paleontology

About the Author

Donald R. Prothero is professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and the Schuchert Award (for an outstanding paleontologist under forty) in 1991. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twenty-four books and over two hundred scientific papers. His titles for Columbia University Press are Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, From Greenhouse to Icehouse, and The Eocene-Oligocene Transition.

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