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Carnivoran evolution : new views on phylogeny, form, and function /

"Canivoran Evolution focuses on current advances in our understanding of carnivoran phylogeny, ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns. This volume highlights a collection of cutting-edge methodologies currently used in studies of Carnivora which help to address fundamental issues in evolu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goswami, Anjali, Friscia, Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to carnivora / Anjali Goswami
  • Phylogeny of the carnivora and carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations / John J. Flynn, John A. Finarelli and Michelle Spaulding
  • Phylogeny of the viverridae and 'viverrid-like' feliforms / Geraldine Veron
  • Molecular and morphological evidence for ailuridae and a review of its genera / Michael Morlo and Stéphane Peigné
  • The influence of character correlations on phylogenetic analyses: a case study of the carnivoran cranium / Anjali Goswami and P. David Polly
  • What's the difference?: a multiphasic allometric analysis of fossil and living lions / Matthew H. Benoit
  • Evolution in carnivora: identifying a morphological bias / Jill A. Holliday
  • The biogeography of carnivore ecomorphology / Lars Werdelin and Gina D. Wesley-Hunt
  • Comparative ecomorphology and biogeography of herpestidae and viverridae (carnivora) in Africa and Asia / Gina D. Wesley-Hunt, Reihaneh Dehghani and Lars Werdelin
  • Ecomorphological analysis of carnivore guilds in the Eocene through Miocene of Laurasia / Michael Morlo, Gregg F. Gunnell and Doris Nagel
  • Ecomorphology of North American Eocene carnivores: evidence for competition between carnivorans and creodonts / Anthony R. Friscia and Blaire Van Valkenburgh
  • Morphometric analysis of cranial morphology in pinnipeds (mammalia, carnivora): convergence, ecology, ontogeny, and dimorphism / Katrina E. Jones and Anjali Goswami
  • Tiptoeing through the trophics: geographic variation in carnivoran locomotor ecomorphology in relation to environment / P. David Polly
  • Interpreting sabretooth cat (carnivora; felidae; machairodontinae) postcranial morphology in light of scaling patterns in felids / Margaret E. Lewis and Michael R. Lague
  • Cranial mechanics of mammalian carnivores: recent advances using a finite element approach / Stephen Wroe.