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008 820619s1981 enka b 001 0 eng
020 _a0198571720
020 _a0198571739 (pbk.)
040 _cDLC
082 0 0 _a596
_219
_bY681
100 1 _aYoung, J. Z.
245 1 4 _aThe life of vertebrates /
_cJ.Z. Young.
250 _a3rd ed.
260 _aOxford :
_bClarendon Press,
_c1981.
300 _axv, 645 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aIncludes indexes.
650 0 _aVertebrates.
650 0 _aVertebrates, Fossil.
942 _cBK
505 0 _aevolution 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;