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described him as "a man who ranks as one of the leading experts in his field: a palaeontologist who seems to have studied with all the greats and to have dug up fossils everywhere that matters." He became interested in dinosaurs as a teenager, not a young child like many palaeontologists, so he read
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saying they "made the book special", while Moody writes that "there are too many humdrum anecdotes that involve
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Several other reviewers also commented on the author's command of modern research and "ability to write in plain
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that scientists now believe caused their extinction and the longer-term climate effects. He also discusses why the dinosaurs died out while other animals did not, the history of our understanding of the causes of dinosaur extinction, and competing theories. The epilogue covers the
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strongly praises source notes at the end of the book, in which
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Brusatte focuses heavily on anecdotes about modern paleontologists from his own life, leading one review to call the book "part autobiography and part popular science". This split reviewers, with Steve
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