Title Statements
- Full title :Vertebrate life.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2019
- Edition:Tenth edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
Notes
Revised edition of: Vertebrate life / F. Harvey Pough, Christine M. Janis, John B. Heiser. 9th edition. Boston : Pearson, ©2013.
"Chapter 26 "Primate Evolution and the Emergence of Humans" by Sergi López-Torres."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 volume (various pagings) : : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; : 29 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781605356075, 1605356077
- oclc:on1166709790
- LC Classification:QL605
- Dewey Decimal:596
Table of Contents
1. Evolution, diversity, and classification of vertebrates -- 2. What is a vertebrate? -- 3. Jawless vertebrates and the origin of jawed vertebrates -- 4. Living in water -- 5. Geography and ecology of the Paleozoic era -- 6. Radiation of diversification of chondrichthyes -- 7. Extant chondrichthyans -- 8. Radiation and diversity of osteichthyes -- 9. Extant bony fishes -- 10. Origin and radiation of tetrapods -- 11. Extant amphibians -- 12. Living on land -- 13. Geography and ecology of the Mesozoic Era -- 14. Synapsids and sauropsids -- 15. Ectothermy : a low-energy approach to life -- 16. Turtles -- 17. Lepidosaurs -- 18. Crocodylians -- 19. Mesozoic diapsids : dinosaurs and others -- 20. Endothermy: a high-energy approach to life -- 21. The origin and radiation of birds -- 22. Extant birds -- 23. Geography and ecology of the Cenozoic Era -- 24. Synapsida and the evolution of mammals -- 25. Extant mammals -- 26. Primate evolution and the emergence of humans.
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