Evolution of the vertebrates : a history of the backboned animals through time
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Evolution of the vertebrates : a history of the backboned animals through time
Wiley-Liss, c1991
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-456) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This updated edition investigates backboned animals during approximately 500 million years of evolution. It traces the history of each major vertebrate group from its origin to its extinction or to the emergence of the next, more advanced group. Drawings and illustrations are included and new chapters have been added on aerial reptiles and birds.
目次
- Jawless Vertebrates
- Acanthodians and Placoderms
- Success of Fishes
- From Water to Land
- Early Vertebrate Faunas
- Amphibians
- The Advent of Reptiles
- Mammal-Like Reptiles
- Conquest of the Land
- Early Ruling Reptiles
- Triumph of the Dinosaurs
- Aerial Reptiles
- Birds
- Aquatic Reptiles
- Years of the Dinosaurs
- Surviving Reptiles
- Beginning of the Mammals
- Marsupials
- Introduction of the Placentals
- The Diverging Placentals
- Evolution of the Primates
- Rodents and Rabbits
- Cetaceans
- Creodonts and Carnivores
- Ancient Hoofed Mammals
- South African Ungulates
- Perissodactyls
- Artiodactyls
- Elephants and their Kin
- The Age of Mammals
- A Classification of the Chordates.
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