TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,J.Z.
TI  - The life of vertebrates
SN  - 0198571720
U1  - 596 19
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  - Vertebrates
KW  - Vertebrates, Fossil
N1  - 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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