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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. 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 lobefin 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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Jennifer A. Clack is Professor and Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. She was awarded the 2008 Daniel Giraud Elliot medal, by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Review :
"This outstanding update of early tetrapod anatomy, phylogeny and systematics... will be extremely useful to students and lecturers in palaeontology, geology, zoology and general biology [and] a 'must' for researchers in the field." Nature "A landmark review of some of the most important discoveries in vertebrate biology and evolution during the close of the past century." PALAIOS "A wonderful tale encrypted in fossils, genes, and flesh." Carl Zimmer, author of At the Water's Edge


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253356758
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 544
  • Series Title: Life of the Past
  • Sub Title: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 025335675X
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 43 mm
  • Weight: 78 gr


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