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Author : Alec L. Panchen
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Terrestrial Environment and the Origin of Land Vertebrates written by Alec L. Panchen and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alec Leonard Panchen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780125447805
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Terrestrial environment and the origin of land vertebrates written by Alec Leonard Panchen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Little
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521336697
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Terrestrial Invasion written by Colin Little and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this book is the invasion of land by animal lines which originated in aquatic environments. It brings together physiological and ecological evidence to show both the likely routes taken out of the sea by the aquatic ancestors of terrestrial animals and the changes in structure and function associated with these routes. The author takes an ecophysiological approach, and by using representative examples, provides a novel background against which both the terrestrial adaptations of individual species and the make up and function of terrestrial ecosystems can be considered. Dr Little is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Colonisation of Land, which discusses the phylogeny and physiology of terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals. The Terrestrial Invasion takes a fresh approach and provides an excellent introduction to the origins of land animals suitable for ecologists, physiologists and evolutionary biologists.
Author : Michel Laurin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520947983
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book How Vertebrates Left the Water written by Michel Laurin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three hundred million years ago—a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared—vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod species. Michel Laurin uses paleontological, geological, physiological, and comparative anatomical data to describe this monumental event. He summarizes key concepts of modern paleontological research, including biological nomenclature, paleontological and molecular dating, and the methods used to infer phylogeny and character evolution. Along with a discussion of the evolutionary pressures that may have led vertebrates onto dry land, the book also shows how extant vertebrates yield clues about the conquest of land and how scientists uncover evolutionary history.
Author : Mauro Luís Triques
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004684913
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Paradigm for the Conquest of Land by Vertebrates That Includes Exaptations written by Mauro Luís Triques and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new view for studying and understanding biological evolution emerges when the concepts of phylogenetic systematics and exaptation are combined. A new definition of macroevolution is created. Preadaptation is shown to be a null concept and its comparison with exaptation is shown to be inappropriate. This book criticizes the prevailing view, the adaptationist, microevolutionary outlook, which considers adaptation as being the exclusive or main evolutionary process responsible for vertebrates having occupied the terrestrial environment. The authors argue that the macroevolutionary processes are significantly more important to explain an improbable evolutionary event. Their research shows that macroevolutionary processes are the dominant factors involved in the origin of terrestriality. This book is a revised and expanded English translation from the original Portuguese edition Peixes conquistam a terra firme: nova abordagem para um evento acidental único (Editora Baraúna, 2017).
Author : Colin Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521252188
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Colonisation of Land written by Colin Little and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the ways in which terrestrial animals have evolved from aquatic ancestors and discusses the means by which they are adapted to life on land. The most important physiological adaptations are those involving salt and water balance, the excretion of nitrogen, reproductive mechanisms and the sense organ and these are given priority. Evidence from fossil history is combined with that from the ecology and physiology of present-day species to assess the probable routes along which various evolutionary lines had moved on to land. Individual chapters are concerned with specific animal groups and emphasis is placed on comparisons of physiological mechanisms between closely related animals before attempting wider generalisations. The book closes with a brief account of the recolonisation of the sea and fresh waters by terrestrial animals.
Author : Rainer R. Schoch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118759133
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Amphibian Evolution written by Rainer R. Schoch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies in the past 370 million years and necessarily deals with many fossils, it is far from restricted to paleontology. The aim is to achieve a comprehensive picture of amphibian evolution. It focuses on major questions in current paleobiology: how diverse were the early tetrapods? In which environments did they live, and how did they come to be preserved? What do we know about the soft body of extinct amphibians, and what does that tell us about the evolution of crucial organs during the transition to land? How did early amphibians develop and grow, and which were the major factors of their evolution? The Topics in Paleobiology Series is published in collaboration with the Palaeontological Association, and is edited by Professor Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Books in the series provide a summary of the current state of knowledge, a trusted route into the primary literature, and will act as pointers for future directions for research. As well as volumes on individual groups, the series will also deal with topics that have a cross-cutting relevance, such as the evolution of significant ecosystems, particular key times and events in the history of life, climate change, and the application of a new techniques such as molecular palaeontology. The books are written by leading international experts and will be pitched at a level suitable for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in both the paleontological and biological sciences.
Author : Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226041544
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time written by Anna K. Behrensmeyer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-08-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land—from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture. By providing myriad insights into the unique ecological information contained in the fossil record, it establishes a new and ambitious basis for the study of evolutionary paleoecology of land ecosystems. A joint undertaking of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and twenty-six additional researchers, this book begins with four chapters that lay out the theoretical background and methodology of the science of evolutionary paleoecology. Included are a comprehensive review of the taphonomy and paleoenvironmental settings of fossil deposits as well as guidelines for developing ecological characterizations of extinct organisms and the communities in which they lived. The remaining three chapters treat the history of terrestrial ecosystems through geological time, emphasizing how ecological interactions have changed, the rate and tempo of ecosystem change, the role of exogenous "forcing factors" in generating ecological change, and the effect of ecological factors on the evolution of biological diversity. The six principal authors of this volume are all associated with the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Author : Ivan Ivanovich Shmalʹgauzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates written by Ivan Ivanovich Shmalʹgauzen and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Sumida
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080527094
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Amniote Origins written by Stuart Sumida and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-01-08 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Integrates modern systematic methods with studies of functional and physiological processes Illustrates how studies of paleobiology can be illuminated by studies of neonatology Provides a thorough and interdisciplinary synthesis of one of the classic transitions of evolutionary history
