Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods

Jennifer A. Clack

Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure -- emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures know as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, Clack defines what a tetrapod is, describes their anatomy, and explains how they are related to other vertebrates. She looks at the Devonian environment in which they evolved, describes the known and newly discovered species, and explores the order and timing of anatomical changes that occurred during the fish-to-tetrapod transition.

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[目次]

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments One Introduction
  • Two Skulls and Skeletons in Transition
  • Three Relationships and Relatives: The Lobe-Fin Family
  • Four Setting the Scene: The Devonian World
  • Five The First Feet: Tetrapods of the Famennian
  • Six From Fins to Feet: Transformation and Transition
  • Seven Emerging into the Carboniferous: The First Phase
  • Eight East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree
  • Nine The Late Carboniferous: Expanding Horizons
  • Ten Gaining Ground: The Evolution of Terrestriality References
  • Index

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書名 Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods
著作者等 Clack, Jennifer A.
Beneteau, Alain
シリーズ名 Life of the past
出版元 Indiana University Press
刊行年月 c2012
版表示 2nd ed
ページ数 xvi, 523 p., [16] p. of plates
大きさ 27 cm
ISBN 9780253356758
NCID BB09741881
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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