Amphibian evolution : the life of early land vertebrates / Rainer R. Schoch.
This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
2014.
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| Series: | Topics in paleobiology.
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| Summary: | This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies in the past 370 million years and necessarily deals with many fossils, it is far from restricted to paleontology. The aim is to achieve a comprehensive picture of amphibian evolution. It focuses on major questions in current paleobiology: how diverse were the early tetrapods? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118759134 1118759133 9781118759158 111875915X 9781118759127 1118759125 130654694X 9781306546942 0470671777 9780470671771 9780470671788 0470671785 |