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Organismic animal biology : an evolutionary approach /

This accessible textbook provides a basic understanding of the general evolutionary principles of organismic animal biology and animal diversity. It integrates parallel themes of body organization and phylogeny to provide an evolutionary journey through the diversity of animal life.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chipman, Ariel D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Animals > Classification.
Biology > Classification.
Organisms.
Phylogeny.
Organismes.
Animaux > Classification.
Biologie > Classification.
Phylogenèse.
Life Sciences.
SCIENCE.
Developmental Biology.
Taxonomy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • About this book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • 1 The hierarchical nature of biology
  • 2 Species concepts and speciation
  • Box 2.1 Examples that defy classification
  • 3 What is an organism? The simplest organisms
  • 4 The concept of evolutionary change
  • Box 4.1 Tree thinking
  • 5 Multicellularity
  • Box 5.1 Choanoflagellates
  • 6 Porifera: The simplest multicellular organisms
  • Box 6.1 Placozoa
  • 7 Germ layers: Inside and out
  • 8 Motility and symmetry
  • 9 Diploblastic organisms: Cnidaria and Ctenophora
  • Box 9.1 The debate over the earliest branching animals
  • 10 Colonial organisms and complex life cycles
  • 11 An introduction to Bilateria
  • Box 11.1 The origin of animal axes
  • Box 11.2 Xenacoelomorpha as a proxy for the earliest bilaterian
  • 12 Sensory systems
  • Box 12.1 The Cambrian Explosion
  • 13 Platyhelminthes
  • Box 13.1 Gnathifera
  • 14 Parasitism
  • Box 14.1 Major human parasites
  • 15 Mollusca
  • 16 Skeletons and coeloms
  • Box 16.1 Old phylogenies, new phylogenies
  • 17 Annelida
  • Box 17.1 More spiralian phyla
  • 18 Segmental organization of the body
  • 19 Size and complexity
  • Box 19.1 The Ordovician Biodiversification Event
  • 20 Molting animals
  • Box 20.1 Scalidophora
  • 21 Arthropoda I: General introduction and Chelicerata
  • Box 21.1 Panarthropoda
  • 22 Terrestrialization
  • Box 22.1 Plant terrestrialization
  • 23 Arthropoda II: Mandibulata
  • Box 23.1 The arthropod head
  • 24 Transport and gas exchange systems
  • 25 Embryogenesis
  • 26 Echinodermata
  • Box 26.1 The end-Permian mass extinction
  • 27 Chordata and Hemichordata
  • 28 Excretory systems
  • 29 Vertebrate characteristics
  • 30 Vertebrate diversity
  • Box 30.1 The end Cretaceous mass extinction
  • 31 Vertebrate organogenesis
  • 32 Organismic biology in the twenty-first century
  • Box 32.1 The ``big five'' model organisms
  • Index