Vertebrate life /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Prentice Hall,
[1999]
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The diversity, evolution, and classification of vertebrates
- The origin of vertebrates
- Vertebrate organ systems and their evolution
- Homeostasis and energetics : water balance, temperature regulation, and energy use
- Geography and ecology from the Cambrian to the mid-Devonian
- Early vertebrates : jawless vertebrates and the origin of jawed vertebrates
- The rise of jawed vertebrates and the radiation of the chondrichthyes
- Dominating life in water : teleostomes and the major radiation of fishes
- Geography and ecology from the mid-Devonian to the later permian
- Origin and radiation of tetrapods in the late paleozoic
- Salamanders, anurans, and caecilians
- Turtles
- Mesozoic diapsids : dinosaurs, birds, crocodilians, and others
- Geography and ecology of the mesozoic
- the lepidosaurs : tuatara, lizards, and snakes
- Ectothermy : a low-cost approach to life
- Characteristics of birds : specializations for flight
- The ecology and behavior of birds
- The synapsida and the evolution of mammals
- Geography and ecology of the cenozoic
- Characteristics of mammals
- Endothermy : a high-energy approach to life
- Body size, ecology, and sociality of mammals
- Humans as vertebrates