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LEADER: 01592cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2006020396
003 DLC
005 20140922120126.0
008 060620s2006 dcua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006020396
020 $a0309100615 (cloth)
020 $a9780309100618
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70176846
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dGK8$dC#P$dEYE$dDLC
050 00 $aQE861.6.E95$bW37 2006
082 00 $a567.9$222
100 1 $aWard, Peter D.$q(Peter Douglas),$d1949-
245 10 $aOut of thin air :$bdinosaurs, birds, and Earth's ancient atmosphere /$cPeter D. Ward ; illustrations by David W. Ehlert.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bJ. Henry Press,$cc2006.
300 $axiii, 282 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index.
505 0 $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 -- 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?
650 0 $aDinosaurs$xExtinction.
650 0 $aDinosaurs$xEvolution.
650 0 $aPaleoecology.
650 0 $aPaleobotany$yCarboniferous.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020396.html