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000313756 1001_ $$aWard, Peter D.$$q(Peter Douglas),$$d1949-
000313756 24510 $$aOut of thin air :$$bdinosaurs, birds, and Earth's ancient atmosphere /$$cPeter D. Ward ; illustrations by David W. Ehlert.
000313756 260__ $$aWashington, D.C. :$$bJ. Henry Press,$$cc2006.
000313756 300__ $$axiii, 282 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000313756 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index.
000313756 5050_ $$aRespiration and the body plans of animal life -- Oxygen through time -- Evolving respiratory systems as a cause of the Cambrian Explosion -- The Ordovician : Cambrian Explosion part II -- The Silurian-Devonian : how an oxygen spike allowed the first conquest of land -- The Carboniferous-early Permian : high-oxygen, fires and giants -- The Permian extinction and the evolution of endothermy -- The Triassic explosion -- The Jurassic : dinosaur hegemony in a low-oxygen world -- The Cretaceous extinction and the rise of large mammals -- Should we fear the oxygen future?
000313756 520__ $$aDiscusses the effect of changing oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere on evolution and mass extinctions, and presents the theory that saurischian dinosaurs were able to weather two mass extinctions because of a new, more efficient respiratory system, which was in turn inherited by their descendants the birds.
000313756 650_0 $$aDinosaurs$$xExtinction.
000313756 650_0 $$aDinosaurs$$xEvolution.
000313756 650_0 $$aPaleoecology.
000313756 650_0 $$aPaleobotany$$yCarboniferous.
000313756 85200 $$bgen$$hQE861.6.E95$$iW37$$i2006
000313756 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020396.html
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