The life of vertebrates / J.Z. Young.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1981.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xv, 645 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0198571720
- 0198571739 (pbk.)
- 596 19 Y681
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Includes indexes.
evolution of life in relation to climatic and geological change;
the general plan of chordate organization: amphioxus;
the origin of chordates from filer feeding animals;
the vertebrates without jaws, lampreys;
fishes;
evolution and adaptive radiation of chondrichthyes;
the mastery of the water, bony fishes;
the evolution of bony fishes;
the adaptive radiation of bony fishes;
lung fishes;
first terrestrial vertebrates: amphibia;
evolution and adaptive radiation of amphibia;
life on land: the reptiles;
evolution of the reptiles;
life in the air: the birds;
bird behavior;
the origin and evolution of birds;
the origin of mammals;
marsupials;
evolution and classification of placental mammals;
insectivores, bats and edentates;
primates;
monkeys, apes and men;
the origin of man;
rodents and rabbits;
whales;
carnivores;
protoungulates;
elephants and related forms;
perissodactyls;
artiodactyls;
the efficiency of mammals;
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