Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods /
"Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure -- emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2012]
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Edición: | Second edition. |
Colección: | Life of the past.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The Origin of Tetrapods
- Skulls and Skeletons in Transition
- Relationships and Relatives : The Lobe-Fin Family
- Setting the Scene : The Devonian World
- The First Feet : Tetrapods of the Famennian
- From Fins to Feet : Transformation and Transition
- Emerging into the Carboniferous : The First Phase
- East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree
- The Late Carboniferous : Expanding Horizons
- Gaining Ground : The Evolution of Terrestriality.