Evolution of the Vertebrates
A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time
4th Edition
Published on 8. April 1991
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-0-471-85074-8 (ISBN)
Description
This updated edition investigates backboned animals during approximately 500 million years of evolution. It traces the history of each major vertebrate group from its origin to its extinction or to the emergence of the next, more advanced group. Drawings and illustrations are included and new chapters have been added on aerial reptiles and birds.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 80 mm
Width: 61 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-85074-8 (9780471850748)
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Edwin H. Colbert | Michael Morales | Eli C. Minkoff
Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates
A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time
Book
09/2001
5th Edition
Wiley
€221.60
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Content
Jawless Vertebrates; Acanthodians and Placoderms; Success of Fishes; From Water to Land; Early Vertebrate Faunas; Amphibians; The Advent of Reptiles; Mammal-Like Reptiles; Conquest of the Land; Early Ruling Reptiles; Triumph of the Dinosaurs; Aerial Reptiles; Birds; Aquatic Reptiles; Years of the Dinosaurs; Surviving Reptiles; Beginning of the Mammals; Marsupials; Introduction of the Placentals; The Diverging Placentals; Evolution of the Primates; Rodents and Rabbits; Cetaceans; Creodonts and Carnivores; Ancient Hoofed Mammals; South African Ungulates; Perissodactyls; Artiodactyls; Elephants and their Kin; The Age of Mammals; A Classification of the Chordates.