Before the Backbone - Views on the origin of the vertebrates (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)

We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries. We would have many a question to ask them if we could - questions never to be solved. Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone When I started this book in 1991, the subject of vertebrate origins was fusty and unfashionable. Early drafts for this preface read like an extend ed complaint at the lot of traditional morphologists, cast aside by the march of modern molecular biology. But no longer - this book should reach you at a time of renewed inter est in the origin of the vertebrates, our own particular corner of creation. For although the topic has excited interest for well over a century, molec ular biology has only lately achieved the maturity necessary to test its predictions. As a legitimate field of study, it is fashionable again."

General

Imprint:	Chapman and Hall
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	H. Gee
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	346
Edition:	1996 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-412-48300-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Vertebrates > General Promotions
LSN:	0-412-48300-9
Barcode:	9780412483004

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