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Amniote origins :

0126764603 (alk. paper)

9780126764604 (alk. paper)

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Amniote origins :

[Book]

completing the transition to land /

edited by Stuart S. Sumida, Karen L.M. Martin.

San Diego :

Academic Press,

c1997.

x, 510 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An Integrated Approach to the Origin of Amniotes: Completing the Transition to Land / Karen L.M. Martin and Stuart S. Sumida -- A New Perspective on Tetrapod Phylogeny / Michel Laurin and Robert R. Reisz -- Crown-Clades, Key Characters and Taxonomic Stability: When is an Amniote not an Amniote? / Michael Y.S. Lee and Patrick S. Spencer -- Biogeography of Primitive Amniotes / David S. Berman, Stuart S. Sumida and R. Eric Lombard -- The Late Paleozoic Atmosphere and the Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology of Tetrapods / Jeffrey B. Graham, Nancy Aguilar, Robert Dudley and Carl Gans -- Origin of the Amniote Feeding Mechanism: Experimental Analysis of Outgroup Clades / George V. Lauder and Gary B. Gillis -- The Amniote Transition and the Discovery of Herbivory / Nicholas Hotton III, Everett C. Olson and Richard Beerbower -- Evolution of the Amniote Egg / Mary J. Packard and Roger S. Seymour.

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Amniote Origins integrates modern systematic methods with studies of functional and physiological processes, and illustrates how studies of paleobiology can be illuminated by studies of neonatology. For this reason, comparative anatomists and physiologists, functional morphologists, zoologists, and paleontologists will all find this unique volume very useful. Inspired by the prospect of integrating fields that have long been isolated from one another, Amniote Origins provides a thorough and interdisciplinary synthesis of one of the classic transitions of evolutionary history.

Amniotes-- Evolution.

Amniotes, Fossil-- Evolution.

Martin, Karen L. M.

Sumida, Stuart Shigeo.

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