Mammals
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Mammals
（The Systematics Association special volume series, no. 35B . The Phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods ; v. 2）
Published for the Systematics Association by the Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
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Proceedings of an international symposium held Mar. 26-27, 1987, and sponsored by the Systematics Association, the Linnean Society of London, and the Palaeontological Association
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book, with "Volume 1 - amphibians, reptiles, birds", brings together a collection of articles presenting an overview on the current debate on the relationships and patterns of evolution of the tetrapods (land vertebrates). The contributors, who are zoologists and palaeontologists from both sides of the Atlantic working on the higher-order systematics of tetrapods, have applied the techniques of cladistic analysis to morphological and molecular data with a view to resolving the phylogenetic patterns in more detail than has previously been possible. This book covers questions such as the closest relatives of tetrapods among fish, the relationships of modern amphibians, lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds, and the origin and diversification of mammal groups.
Table of Contents
- Interrelationships of the Synapsida
- a note on the Mesozoic mammals, and the origin of therians
- the major groups of eutherian mammals
- phylogeny of the Carnivora
- phylogeny of the insectivores
- a phylogenetic analysis of the primates
- rodent phylogeny - new data and old problems
- the phylogeny of the ungulates
- the phylogeny of the Artiodactyla
- a phylogeny of the Ruminantia (Artiodactyla, Mammalia)
- the Tethytheria - elephants and their relatives. Index. List of Systematics Association publications.
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