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The Walking Whales : From Land to Water in Eight Million Years /
Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Walking Whales; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1. A Wasted Dig; Fossils and War; A Whale Ear; 2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur?; The King Lizard of Cape Cod; Basilosaurid Whales; Basilosaurids and Evolution; 3. A Whale with Legs; The Black and White Hills; A Walking Whale; 4. Learning to Swim; Meeting the Killer Whale; From Dog-Paddle to Torpedo; Ambulocetid Whales; Ambulocetus and Evolution; 5. When the Mountains Grew; The High Himalayas; Kidnapping in the Hills; Indian Whales; 6. Passage to India; Stranded in Delhi; Whales in the Desert; A 150-Pound Skull.
- 7. A Trip to the BeachThe Outer Banks; A Fossilized Coast; 8. The Otter Whale; The Whale with No Hands; Remingtonocetid Whales; Building a Beast out of Bones; 9. The Ocean Is a Desert; Forensic Paleontology; Drinking and Peeing; Fossilized Drinking Behavior; Walking with Ambulocetus; 10. The Skeleton Puzzle; If Looks Could Kill; How Many Bones Make a Skeleton?; Finding Whales' Sisters; 11. The River Whales; Hearing in Whales; Pakicetid Whales; September 11, 2001; 12. Whales Conquer the World; A Molecular SINE; The Black Whale; Protocetid Whales; Protocetids and History.
- 13. From Embryos to EvolutionA Dolphin with Legs; The Marine Park at Taiji; Shedding Limbs; Whaling in Taiji; 14. Before Whales; The Widow's Fossils; The Ancestors of Whales; Indohyus; A Trust for Fossils; 15. The Way Forward; The Big Question; Tooth Development; Baleen as Teeth; Notes; Index.