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Evolving animals : the story of our kingdom /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthur, Wallace
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Biological Evolution.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What is an animal?
  • 2. Before there were animals
  • 3. How to make a fossil
  • 4. The Cambrian explosion
  • 5. How to make a species
  • 6. Jellyfish and their kin
  • 7. How to make a tree
  • 8. The enigmatic urbilaterian
  • 9. Animal symmetry and heads
  • 10. A plethora of worms
  • 11. Trends in animal complexity
  • 12. Where the octopus is king
  • 13. How to make an animal
  • 14. Exoskeletons galore
  • 15. Extinction
  • 16. Mouth first, mouth second
  • 17. Comparing embryos
  • 18. Larvae, mouthparts and moulting
  • 19. The animal toolkit
  • 20. Vertebrate origins and evolution
  • 21. From water to land to water
  • 22. Variation and inheritance
  • 23. Evolutionary novelties
  • 24. Human origins and evolution
  • 25. Animal plasticity
  • 26. The nature of adaptation
  • 27. The direction of evolution
  • 28. Animal extremophiles
  • 29. Extraterrestrial animals?
  • 30. The ghost in the machine.