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Invasions of the land : the transitions of organisms from aquatic to terrestrial life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon, Malcolm S.
Other Authors: Olson, Everett C. (Everett Claire), 1910-1993
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [1995]
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Adaptation (Biology)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The physical settings of land invasions
  • Plant transitions to land
  • Fossil evidence of metazoan transitions: Cambrian through middle Silurian
  • Fossil evidence of metazoan transitions: late Silurian and Devonian
  • Fossil evidence of metazoan transitions: Permo-Carboniferous and later
  • Functional evidence from living molluscs
  • Functional evidence from living annelids and crustaceans
  • Functional evidence from living vertebrates
  • Summary and synthesis.