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xi Acknowledgments Having just completed a book on dinosaur bone microstructure, the notion of another book was furthest from my mind when Jim Farlow seeded the idea of a book on “therapsid bone” in my head. Once implanted, it simply grew and has now materialized. Thanks, Jim! I am indebted to all the contributors to this book. The successful completion of an edited volume of this nature is directly attributable to the hard work and diligence of the entire team. I count myself as incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to collaborate with all of you at some stage in the past, and now again on this book. Bob Sloan, Jim Farlow, Bernadette Zoss, Dan Pyle, June Silay, Karen Hallman, and others at Indiana University Press, thank you for dealing with my queries so efficiently. I am grateful to all the collection managers from around the world who grant permission for histological analyses of fossils under their curation because they understand and appreciate the importance of studies of bone microstructure. Kholeka Sidinile, Kerwin von Willig, and especially Andrea Plos are acknowledged for technical support. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity of learning and growing with several research students, and currently, I have an exceptional group of postdoctoral fellows in my lab—Romala Govender, Sandra Jasinoski, Daniel Thomas, Yasemin Tulu, and, more recently, Aurore Canoville— as well as graduate students Nicholas Fordyce, Ian Brumfitt, and, most recently, Tobias Nasterlack. Thank you to all of you for choosing to unravel the biology of extinct animals with me. My friends and colleagues from around the world—you know who you are—thank you for being just an email or a call away. Special thanks are necessary to Luis Rey, who has brought several synapsids to life with his vivid artwork. Peter Dodson, my friend, colleague, and mentor, I am so glad our paths crossed way back. I am particularly indebted to my parents and sisters and their families for their support through the years. I am especially thankful to my husband, Yunus Turan, for his abiding back-up of all that I do, and to my sons, Evren and Altay, for simply bearing with me. You all inspire me more than you know. A. C-T A xii Acknowledgments My co-authors and I would like to thank and acknowledge the following reviewers for their insightful reading and constructive comments of chapters in the book: Kenneth Angielczyk, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States Al Bennett, University of California, Irvine, California, United States Jennifer Botha-Brink, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa Greg Erickson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States James Farlow, Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States Jeremy Green, Kent State University, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States Tom Hübner, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany Adam Huttenlocker, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States Sandra Jasinoski, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Christian Kammerer, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States Tom Kemp, Oxford Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom Michel Laurin, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France Sanghamitra Ray, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Bruce Rubidge, Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Stuart Sumida, California State University, San Bernadino, California, United States Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ...

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