The life of vertebrates /
J.Z. Young.
- 3rd ed.
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1981.
- xv, 645 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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;