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COVER; SKELETONS: THE FRAME OF LIFE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE; 1: SKELETONS APPEAR; The First True Skeletons; Attack of the Soft Animals; An Eruption of Skeletons; Harder and Softer Skeletons; Primordial Skeletons of Lilliput?; 2: A SHELL ON THE OUTSIDE; How Big is Big?; Armour-Plated Animals; Humpty Dumpty World; Rise of the Planet of the Arthropods; The Enduring Ostracods; The Exoskeleton Invasion of Land; The Seashells; Jet-Propelled Exoskeletons; Skeleton of the Argonauts; The Building Trade; The Slow Road to Success; 3: A SHELL ON THE INSIDE.
The Armoured FishThe Earliest Vertebrates; The Strangest Teeth; Building Blocks of a Skeleton; Tooth and Jaw, but Not Yet Claw; Half Fish, Half Tetrapod; Amphibians to Amniotes; The â#x80;#x98;Not Quite Dinosaursâ#x80;#x99; of the Permian; Enter the Dinosaurs; A Question of Size; Reclaiming the Seas; The Making of the Modern Skeleton; A New Skeleton Diversity; All Fours to Upright; The Roots of Human Abundance; From Hand to Mouth; The â#x80;#x98;Hedgehog Skinâ#x80;#x99; Animals; The Shape-Shifters; 4: PLANT SKELETONS; Early Days; The River Revolution; The Moving Plant Skeletons; The Grit in Grass; 5: MEGA-SKELETONS.
The Coral SkeletonThe Wider Reef; The Deeper Reef; The Larger Frameworks; Bivalve Reefs of the Cretaceous; The Ancient Reefs of the Palaeozoic; 6: MINI-SKELETONS; A World Unseen; The â#x80;#x98;Ur Animalsâ#x80;#x99;; An Amoeba within a Shell; Challenging Times; Ancient Mysteries and Whirling Dervishes; Plankton in Glasshouses; The Coccospheres; 7: FLYING SKELETONS; Flying Kites; Arthropods in the Air; From Pterosaurs to Terror Birds; The Birds; Back to the Land: the Terror Birds; Flying Mammals; 8: SKELETON ARCHIVES; A Mollusc for all Seasons; The Saw-tooth Foraminifera; The Return of the Giant Tortoises.
Includes bibliographical references and index.