Robert T. Bakker

Person · Open Library

Born

1945-03-24

Works

10

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Acting · Bergen County, New Jersey, USA

Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). Along with his mentor John Ostrom, Bakker was responsible for initiating the ongoing "dinosaur renaissance" in paleontological studies, beginning with Bakker's article…

Known for

• T. Rex: Ultimate Survivor — Self2015
• Dinosaur Wars — Himself2011
• Clash of the Dinosaurs — Himself2009
• Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy — Himself2008
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast1994
• Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs? — Scientist (Colorado)1992
• The Dinosaurs! — Self - Commentor1992
• American Experience — Self1988
• Dinosaur! — Self1985
• The Sandpit Generals1972

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Country

GB

Active from

1967

Active to

1977-09-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,712x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,512x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,778x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,745x

5. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,444x

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Quotes

• “Most experts have assumed that the allosaurs, about 35 feet long, were the worst threats to the herbivores of the Jurassic, some of which were gigantic and probably able to fend off even an allosaur. But epanterias would have spelled trouble for everyone.”
• “Even 'Jurassic Park III' tried to jump on the avian-dino bandwagon by making a brave attempt to adorn Velociraptor with a feathery hair-piece. (The result looked like a roadrunner's toupee- don't blame the effects-artists; it's notoriously difficult to render feathers in computer graphics animation, so we'll have to wait for 'JP IV' for a more thoroughly rendered avian pelage.)”
• “Ceratosaurus is and has been my favorite dino since 1958. This is a minority taste. I’ve met only one dino-digger who rated it #1 in desirability.”
• “The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the proto­type of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants.”
• “Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking in­ inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.”
• “When the dinosaurs fell at the end of the Cretaceous, they were not a senile, moribund group that had played out its evolutionary options. Rather they were vigorous, still diversifying into new or­ders and producing a variety of big­brained carnivores with the highest grade of intelligence yet present on land.”

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