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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The amphibian world: now and then
- Amphibian life through time
- The amphibian soft body
- Evolution of functional systems
- Development and evolution
- Paleoecology
- Life history evolution
- Phylogeny
- Macroevolution.