The Rise of Birds av Sankar (Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Geology Museum of Texas Tech University) Chatterjee

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<p><b>The most comprehensive account of the origin of ancient and modern birds¿the "living dinosaurs."</b></p><p>A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in the age of dinosaurs. He called it Protoavis, and the animal that owned these bones quickly became a contender for the title of "oldest known bird." In 1997, Chatterjee published his findings in the first edition of The Rise of Birds. </p><p>Since then Chatterjee and his colleagues have searched the world for more transitional bird fossils. And they have found them. This second edition of <i>The Rise of Birds</i> brings together a treasure trove of fossils that tell us far more about the evolution of birds than we once dreamed possible. </p><p>With no blind allegiance to what he once t