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Out of thin air : dinosaurs, birds, and earth's ancient atmosphere / Peter D. Ward ; illustrations by David W. Ehlert.

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Washington, D.C. : J. Henry Press, c2006.

xiii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Respiration 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?

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