Out of thin air : dinosaurs, birds, and Earth's ancient atmosphere
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Peter Douglas Ward; National Academies Press (États-Unis)
- ناشر : Washington, D.C. : J. Henry Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780309100618
Description
Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal Life -- Oxygen Through Time -- Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion -- The Ordovician: Cambrian Explosion -- How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land / The Silurian-Devonian -- High-oxygen, Fires and Giants / The Carboniferous-Early Permian -- The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy -- The Triassic Explosion -- Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World / The Jurassic -- The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals -- Should We Fear the Oxygen Future?.
By tracing the evolutionary path back through time and connecting the dots from birds to dinosaurs, this work describes the unique form of breathing shared by these two distant relatives and demonstrates how this simple but remarkable characteristic provides the elusive explanation to a question that has stumped scientists.
