The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

... The information Brusatte provides appears to be solid, given the extent of his bibliography, which is in a chapter called ???Notes on Sources???. Incidentally, those notes are written in the same tone as the rest of the book, and so is just as much a pleasure to read. The section is a little disorganised, seeing as the lists of sources are given in paragraph form as opposed to a more traditional format for bibliographies, but the informality is likely to be more interesting for non-academics, as opposed to a more traditional, academic-style bibliography.

Brusatte is also careful to note where what he is stating is his opinion as opposed to a proven fact, especially when he talks about certain debates currently underway in palaeontology and which he claims will eventually be resolved by the younger generation of palaeontologists coming into the field. This is especially prominent in the Notes on Sources section of the book ??? where, at the very end, he drops the name of a PhD student he and his colleague Tom Williamson are co-mentoring: Sarah Shelley who is working on understanding the rise of mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs. I am not sure how many readers will read this far into the book, but it is heartening to see an established palaeontologist name-drop a mentee???s name in his book, in the hopes of helping her further along in her career.

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