• Front Matter R1-R14

• Introduction 1-8

• 1 Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal Life 9-30

• 2 Oxygen Through Time 31-50

• 3 Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion 51-80

• 4 The Ordovician: Cambrian Explosion Part II 81-88

• 5 The Silurian-Devonian: How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land 89-110

• 6 The Carboniferous-Early Permian: High Oxygen, Fires, and Giants 111-132

• 7 The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy 133-158

• 8 The Triassic Explosion 159-198

• 9 The Jurassic: Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World 199-222

• 10 The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals 223-228

• 11 Should We Fear the Oxygen Future? 229-236

• References 237-260

• Appendix 261-264

• Index 265-282

Ward, Peter " References ." Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2006 .

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