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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dale A. RussellPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.361kg ISBN: 9780253352736ISBN 10: 0253352738 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 14 July 2009 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsDale Russell is one of the great creative thinkers of all time in paleontology. This book-clearly the product of a full life considering these questions-does not disappoint. -David E. Fastovsky, author of Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs [P]rofessionals, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and geologically literate amateurs-even philosophers of science and science fiction authors... will find it enlightening and stimulating. -Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Dale Russell is one of the great creative thinkers of all time in palaeontology. This book - clearly the product of a full life considering these questions - does not disappoint. David E. Fastovsky, author of Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs Russell's real agenda is to argue that life becomes progressively fitter and more competitive...that Stephen Jay Gould and company would have us believe. This is an important debate in evolutionary biology and Russell does well to raise it for discussion. Graham Lawton, New Scientist, 1st Aug 2009 Author InformationDale A. Russell is senior curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada and An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America. -- Indiana University Press Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |