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The life of vertebrates / J.Z. Young

By: Publication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press, c1985.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xv, 645 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0198571720
  • 0198571739 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 596 19 YOU
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Contents;

1. Evolution of life in relation to climatic and geological change
2. The general plan of chordate organization: Amphioxus
3. The origin of chordates from filter feeding animals
4. The vertebrates without jaws, lampreys
5. Fishes
6. Evolution and adaptive radiation of chondrichthyes
7. The mastery of the water, bony fishes
8. The evolution of bony fishes
9. The adaptive radiation of bony fishes
10. Lung fishes
11. First terrestrial vertebrates: Amphibia
12. Evolution and adaptive radiation of amphibia
13. Life on land: the reptiles
14. Evolution of the reptiles
15. Life in the air: the birds
16. Bird behaviour
17. The origin and evolution of birds
18. The origin of mammals
19. Marsupials
20. Evolution and classification of placental mammals
21. Insectivores, bats, and edentates

Bibliography : p. [586]-606 . _ Index : p. 607-645.

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