Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution, Hans-Dieter Sues, Jason S. Anderson

Автор: Coyne, Jerry A
Название: Why evolution is true
ISBN: 0199230854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199230853
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Why Evolution is True focuses on the hard evidence that proves evolution by natural selection to be a fact. Weaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth-and the beauty-of evolution.

Автор: Anton Mauricio
Название: Sabertooth
ISBN: 025301042X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253010421
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that were not cats, animals with exotic names like nimravids, barbourofelids, and thylacosmilids. Some were no taller than a domestic cat, others were larger than a lion, and some were as weird as their names suggest. Sabertooths continue to pose questions even for specialists. What did they look like? How did they use their spectacular canine teeth? And why did they finally go extinct? In this visual and intellectual treat of a book, Mauricio Ant?n tells their story in words and pictures, all scrupulously based on the latest scientific research. The book is a glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.

Автор: Prothero, Donald R.
Название: Vertebrate evolution
ISBN: 036747316X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367473167
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading to further evolutionary divergence and the appearance of the familiar charismatic vertebrates of today.

Название: Key Transitions in Animal Evolution
ISBN: 0367383195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367383190
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Описание: Addressing the evolution of key innovations in metazoans, this challenging book summarizes the more recent results in phylogenetics and developmental biology. Divided into three sections, the first considers the phylogenetic issues involving this area of the tree of life and the elucidation of those relationships that continue to trouble taxonomists. The second section considers the developmental biology of metazoan evolution including the development of the nervous system, sensory organs, and physiological maturation. Part three focuses on the evolution of pattern and process in the Metazoa.

Автор: Donald B. Brinkman; Patricia A. Holroyd; James D.
Название: Morphology and Evolution of Turtles
ISBN: 9401781516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401781510
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume celebrates the contributions of Dr. Eugene Gaffney to the study of turtles, through a diverse and complementary collection of papers that showcases the latest research on one of the most intriguing groups of reptiles. A mix of focused and review papers deals with numerous aspects of the evolutionary history of turtles, including embryonic development, origins, early diversification, phylogenetic relationships, and biogeography. Moreover it includes reports on important but poorly understood fossil turtle assemblages, provides historical perspectives on turtle research, and documents disease and variation in turtles. With its broad scope, which includes descriptions of material and new taxa from Australia, Asia, and Europe, as well as North and South America, this work will be an essential resource for anyone interested in the morphology and evolution of turtles. “This volume’s breadth of time, geography, and taxonomic coverage makes it a major contribution to the field and a ‘must have’ for all vertebrate paleontologists.”, James F. Parham, California State University, CA, USA “A comprehensive and sweeping overview of turtle evolution by the top experts in the field that will interest everyone curious about these unique reptiles.” Jason S. Anderson, University of Calgary, Canada “An invaluable addition to the literature that covers the full spectrum of approaches toward understanding the evolution of these noble creatures.” Ann C. Burke, Wesleyan University, CT , USA “A truly comprehensive volume that both the student of fossil turtles, as well as the general reader interested in these enigmatic creatures, will find fascinating.” Tyler Lyson, Yale University, CT, USA

Автор: Jagers Op Akkerhuis Gerard A. J. M.
Название: Evolution and Transitions in Complexity: The Science of Hierarchical Organization in Nature
ISBN: 3319829149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319829142
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Описание: This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close link with one of the most broadly held views on evolution, namely that of “Darwinian evolution.” This work puts forth a new point of view which allows researchers to define in detail the concept of evolution. To create this conceptual definition, the text applies a stringent object-based focus. With this focus, the editor has been able to develop an object-based pattern of evolution at the smallest scale. Subsequently, this smallest scale pattern is used as an innovative basis for generalizations. These generalizations create links between biological Darwinism and generalized Darwinism. The object-based approach that was used to suggest innovations in the field of Darwinian evolution also allowed for contributions to other topics, such as major evolutionary transitions theory, the definition of life and the relationships between evolution, self-organization and thermodynamics. Together, the chapters of this book and the multidisciplinary reflections and comments of various specialists on these chapters offer an exciting palette of innovative ideas.

Автор: Gadow
Название: The Evolution of the Vertebral Column
ISBN: 1107633389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107633384
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1933, this book is a culmination of a lifetime of research by Hans Friedrich Gadow into the evolution of the vertebrae. Gadow outlines the various forms of vertebral development as a guide to larger and more general questions on the morphological scheme of the evolution of vertebrate creatures.

Автор: Dial, Kenneth P. Shubin, Neil Brainerd, Elizabeth Lindemann
Название: Great transformations in vertebrate evolution
ISBN: 022626825X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226268255
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Описание: How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques and approaches across a range of fields--work spanning multiple levels of biological organization from DNA sequences to organs and the physiology and ecology of whole organisms--we are now beginning to unravel the confounding evolutionary mysteries contained in the structure, genes, and fossil record of every living species.

This book gathers a diverse team of renowned scientists to capture the excitement of these new discoveries in a collection that is both accessible to students and an important contribution to the future of its field. Marshaling a range of disciplines--from paleobiology to phylogenetics, developmental biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology--the contributors attack particular transformations in the head and neck, trunk, appendages such as fins and limbs, and the whole body, as well as offer synthetic perspectives. Illustrated throughout, Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution not only reveals the true origins of whales with legs, fish with elbows, wrists, and necks, and feathered dinosaurs, but also the relevance to our lives today of these extraordinary narratives of change.

Автор: Geoffrey A. Manley; Richard R. Fay
Название: Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System
ISBN: 038721089X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387210896
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The function of vertebrate hearing is served by a surprising variety of sensory structures in the different groups of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Автор: Jean-Jacques Hublin; Michael P. Richards
Название: The Evolution of Hominin Diets
ISBN: 9048181860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048181865
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book offers new research from top experts in hominid diets across multiple fields. It seeks to see if there is a consensus among the various methods of diet, allowing readers to better understand the nature of hominin dietary strategies through time.

Автор: Brian K. Hall
Название: The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution
ISBN: 1441935428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441935427
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Описание: A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary) development and evolution; The treatment of development will include discussions of cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of the differentiation and morphogenesis of neural crest cells and structures derived from neural crest cells.

Автор: Robert A Martin
Название: Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts & Transitions Through Time
ISBN: 1935778285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935778288
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: This book provides both a compendium of evidence supporting Charles Darwins grand theory of evolution and an overview of some of the most fascinating chapters in the 3.5+ billion year history of biological diversity on planet Earth. Written in a substantive and accessible style, this revised and updated second edition of "Missing Links" will serve as a source of information for the general reader as well as an ancillary text for formal and informal courses in a variety of disciplines. The first section of the book introduces readers to scientific thinking and methods of studying Earths geological history, principles of classification and phylogenetic analysis, the role of ecology in the history of life, and perspectives on the origin and evolution of species. The second section presents an overview of significant transitions in the history of Earths biodiversity, beginning with the origin of life and including chapters on the fish-amphibian, reptile (probably dinosaur)-bird, and reptile-mammal transitions. Other chapters examine detailed evolutionary histories of flatfishes, snakes, rodents, horses, whales, and humans. The final chapter documents evolutionary changes occurring now, in living animals, within the lifetime of a human observer.