Description: Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution, Paperback by Dial, Kenneth P. (EDT); Shubin, Neil (EDT); Brainerd, Elizabeth L. (EDT), ISBN 022626825X, ISBN-13 9780226268255, Brand New, Free shipping in the US How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques and approaches across a range of fields&;work spanning multiple levels of biological organization from DNA sequences to organs and the physiology and ecology of whole organisms&;we are now beginning to unravel the confounding evolutionary mysteries contained in the structure, genes, and fossil record of every living species. This book gathers a diverse team of renowned scientists to capture the excitement of these new discoveries in a collection that is both accessible to students and an important contribution to the future of its field. Marshaling a range of disciplines&;from paleobiology to phylogenetics, developmental biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology&;the contributors attack particular transformations in the head and neck, trunk, appendages such as fins and limbs, and the whole body, as well as offer synthetic perspectives. Illustrated throughout, Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution not only reveals the true origins of whales with legs, fish with elbows, wrists, and necks, and feathered dinosaurs, but also the relevance to our lives today of these extraordinary narratives of change.
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Book Title: Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 37 Oz
Item Length: 1.1 in
Author: Neil Shubin
Subject Area: Science
Item Width: 0.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
