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Four-hundred-million years of vertebrate evolution are chronicled and described in this internationally acclaimed work which was first published in 1955 and has since come to be known as a classic in the field. Written as a general exposition of the subject, rather than as a compendium of data, it presents the evolution of the backboned animals from two perspectives: through time, and through the separate evolutionary histories of the great classes and lesser divisions of the vertebrates. This latest edition is the result of important advances in the field in the form of valuable new interpretations of vertebrate evolution and significant new discoveries of fossils throughout the world. Included is a discussion of past continental relationships according to the modern theory of Plate Tectonics and the bearing of such relationships on the evolution and distribution of tetrapods.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Jawless vertebrates. 3. The acanthodians and placoderms. 4. Success of the fishes. 5. From water to land. 6. Early vertebrate faunas. 7. Amphibians. 8. Advent of the reptiles. 9. Mammal like reptiles. 10. Conquest of the land. 11. Early ruling reptiles. 12. Marine reptiles. 13. Flying reptiles and birds. 14. Triumph of the dinosaurs. 15. Years of the dinosaurs. 16. Surviving reptiles. 17. Beginning of the mammals. 18. Marsupials. 19. Introduction to the placentals. 20. The diverging placentals. 21. Evolution of the primates. 22. Rodents and rabbits. 23. Cetaceans. 24. Creodonts and carnivores. 25. Ancient hoofed mammals. 26. South American ungulates. 27. Perissodactyls. 28. Artiodactyls. 29. Elephants and their kin. 30. The Age of mammals. A Classification of the chordates. References. Index. From the preface: During the decade that has elapsed since publication of the second edition of Evolution of the Vertebrates there has been an inevitable increase of our knowledge concerning the backboned animals, fossils and recent. Much of this increment is due to new paleontological discoveries made throughout the world. Some of it is due to reinterpretations of extant materials-the result of increasingly detailed and sophisticated studies affording new insights into the structure and relationships of the vertebrates. Consequently a new edition of the book is desirable. Seller Inventory # 116376