Well,
one of the main complaints I have with the book concern some minor but common
editorial/typographical errors. Somewhere between submission and printing
errors crept into my own and other chapters, particularly with regards to figure
captions. For example, I know full well how to spell "coelurosaur", but
the word "coelosaur" shows up on some of my figure captions. Also, for
another example, the middle part of the caption disappeared on my sauropodomorph
cladogram on p. 158: it is supposed to mention that some analyses support a
monophyletic Prosauropoda, while others suggest that these early forms form a
paraphyletic grade leading to true sauropods.
Also,
there is no index for the book in the current edition.
My
final complaint specifically concerns the reprint of Bakker's Dinosaur
Renaissance, where all the data tables disappeared (one of the things I really
liked about the original was the continuous bar & pie charts and figures
running through the middle of the article).
That
being said, it is a VERY up to date book, and provides some access to
information and figures otherwise not yet accessible to the
general public. I like it!
Thomas R. Holtz,
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