作者：SteveBrusatte
出版社：WilliamMorrow&Company
副标题：ANewHistoryofaLostWorld
出版年：2018-4-24
页数：416
定价：GBP22.55
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780062490421
内容简介
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"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before.
In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages.
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.”
Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research—which he calls “a new golden age of discovery”—and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.
An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.
作者简介
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Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts and writes about dinosaurs. He is on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, but grew up in the Midwestern USA. Steve has traveled around the world digging up dinosaurs and, working with many international colleagues, has named more than 15 new species, including the tyrannosaur 'Pinocchio rex' (Qianzhousaurus) and the raptor Zhenyuanlong. He has written several books for kids and adults, most notably the adult pop science book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018), which was a New York Times bestseller in the USA, Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, and Globe & Mail bestseller in Canada. His work is covered often by the popular press and he has appeared on several television shows, such as the National Geographic extravaganza T. rex Autopsy, where he was part of the team that dissected a scientifically accurate life-sized model of a T. rex.
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看了那么多年热闹后终于入门了。知道了三大类恐龙；知道了年代的划分；知道了主要产地和品种；知道了产地品种和大陆漂移的关系；知道了统计学无处不在；知道了辽宁为什么出恐龙；知道了恐龙的颜色是怎么猜的；知道了小行星灭绝的证据链……
还有两个重要的思考副产品：因为小行星，人类要有移民计划；因为进化不受控制，人类要警惕抗生素失效。
恐龙还在我们身边，比如作者苏格兰住所窗外的那只seagull。
书里从恐龙的出现，到进化成星球霸主，再到化身鸟类，完整地给我们呈现了那个恐龙的时代——中生代。其中穿插了作者自己求学、寻觅化石的经历。终其所述，恐龙并没有什么特殊，也是亿万年自然选择的结果；彗星或小行星撞地球，并非空穴来风，也是有地质学、古生物学的证据的；最后，在动辄千万年的地质纪年之下，当下的种种纷纷扰扰，甚至于人类各种纠缠踌躇，根…
听是听完了，可是我的脑袋仿佛一个没有网的筛子🗿/ T-Rex 所占篇幅比我想象中更长，但可能是规避编年体逻辑后的必要 focalisation / 作者对不同科学家、科学爱好者穿衣风格的描述还挺有趣的，Alessandro Michele 可以在弹尽粮绝之际照搬过来做一个系列
相当不错的科普，窝希望能更深入一点（于是不得不去看了作者的论文）
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