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Before the Backbone - Views on the origin of the vertebrates (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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Before the Backbone - Views on the origin of the vertebrates (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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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."
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