
Primitive Animals
Geoffrey Smith(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 22. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-107-60582-4 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. Geoffrey Smith's Primitive Animals, which was first published in 1911, contains an account of the chief groups in the animal kingdom and the evidence by which some of the main streams of animal evolution can be traced.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
188 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60582-4 (9781107605824)
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Content
Preface; 1. The animal kingdom; 2. The simplest animals and plants and the origin of life; 3. The appendiculate phylum; 4. Embryonic and larval histories; 5. The ancestry of the vertebrates; 6. The origin of the land vertebrates; 7. The rise of the mammalia; 8. Reflections on the past and future of animal life; Appendix A. Classification of the chief animal phyla; Appendix B. A table of the chief geological epochs; Index.