Great transformations in vertebrate evolution
How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques …
Great transformations in vertebrate evolution
How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques …
Vertebrate skeletal histology and paleohistology
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. …
