Table of contents for Out of thin air : dinosaurs, birds, and Earth's ancient atmosphere / Peter D. Ward.

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Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal Life
2. Oxygen Through Time
3. Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion
4. The Ordovician: Cambrian Explosion, Part II 
5. The Silurian-Devonian: How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land
6. The Carboniferous-Early Permian: High-oxygen, Fires and Giants
7. The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy
8. The Triassic Explosion
9. The Jurassic: Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World 
10. The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals
11. Should We Fear the Oxygen Future?

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Dinosaurs -- Extinction.
Dinosaurs -- Evolution.
Paleoecology.
Paleobotany -- Carboniferous.