UID:
almafu_9959327700802883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118759134
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1118759133
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9781118759158
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111875915X
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9781118759127
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1118759125
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130654694X
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9781306546942
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0470671777
,
9780470671771
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9780470671788
,
0470671785
Series Statement:
Topics in paleobiology
Content:
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?
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Schoch, Rainer, 1970- Amphibian evolution. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 ISBN 9780470671771
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118759127
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118759127
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118759127
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