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Celebrates the American Museum of Natural History's newly renovated fossil halls and uses these exhibits to trace the evolution of vertebrate animals.
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Dr. Lowell Dingus, a geological paleontologist, is project director for the fossil halls renovation at the American Museum of Natural History, where since 1987 he has overseen the development of exhibitions concerning vertebrate paleontology. Dr. Dingus was formerly a scientific coordinator and instructor at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He has received several grants for field work and research, and his expeditions over the past fifteen years have ranged from the Gobi Desert badlands of Mongolia to the Hell Creek and Tullock Formations of Montana. Dr. Dingus is a frequent lecturer and has authored or co-authored several children's books, including What Color is that Dinosaur: Questions, Answers, and Mysteries (Millbrook Press, 1994), and Discovering Dinosaurs (Knopf, 1995), which won a Scientific American Young Reader's Award.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. This book, liberally illustrated with beautiful new color and archival photography, and artwork and graphics produced especially for the renovated exhibits, is an in-depth look at the evolution of vertebrate animals in the collection. In an incisive, behind-the-scenes text, paleontologist Lowell Dingus discusses the earliest specimens: fish, amphibians, and primitive reptiles that represent evolutionary starting points for major groups; the popular saurischian dinosaurs, including the seventeen-ton Apatosauris (once called Brontosaurus) skeleton; and ornithischian dinosaurs such as the horned Triceratops. He concludes with the mammal hills, where animals as diverse as the fin-backed Dimetrodon, mastodons, and, after primates, our closest 'next of kin' - bats - are shown to be related by one hole in the skull behind the eye socket. This modification illustrates the contemporary approach to evolution that readers will learn about called cladistics, which establishes animal relationships based on unique shared anatomical changes that were inherited over the course of time. The Museum galleries are organized to reflect how this approach has been used to reconstruct the family tree of vertebrate evolution: walking along the main pathway through the fossil halls is like walking along the trunk of the vertebrate evolutionary tree. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector. Seller Inventory # 322137
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