Subject: Re: Bird/Dinosaur debate
Date: Jan 3 12:02:36 1998
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

Mike Patterson writes:

>Some useful reading:
>Bakker, Robert. 1986. _The Dinosuar Heresies_. Morrow.
>Feduccia, Alan. 1980. _The Age of Birds_ Harvard Pres
>Feduccia, Alan. 1996. _The Origin and Evolution of Birds_. Yale Press.

May I add a really entertaining dino book to this list?

Hunting Dinosaurs
Louie Psihoyos and John Knoebber
Cassell 1994

A large-format, almost a coffee-table book, interviews with paleontologists
doing the leading work, well-written and *beautifully* photographed (Louie P
is a National G photographer when he and his buddy aren't carting Edward
Drinker Cope's skull around to introduce him to the current people in the
field), and one of the funniest books on science generally and dino's in
particular I've ever read. These two guys are wonderful loons. A great
overview on what's been happening recently and who's been doing the work and
who provided the basis, it's more like a loud boisterous party of amateur
and professional dino-junkies with a great slideshow, except in print. If
they'd had teachers and books like this in school...

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
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