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Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods - Controversy and Consensus (Hardcover, New)
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Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods - Controversy and Consensus (Hardcover, New)
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This edited volume explores the various views on the origins of
tetrapods-amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals-views that agree
or differ depending in part on how certain fossil animals are
classified and which methodology is used for classification.
Eighteen chapters by an international group of paleontologists and
neontologists here present current hypotheses, emphasizing the
kinds of data needed to answer controversial questions, as well as
the variety of solutions that emerge from diferent analyses of the
same data set. The book is arranged in five sections, each of which
contains an overview essay that either describes the development of
various schools of thought regarding the origin of the tetrapod
group in question or critically summarizes the arguments presented
in the section. The first section addresses the origins of
tetrapods as a group, focusing on lobe-finned fishes and early
tetrapods. Next is a section dealing with amphbians, followed by
one on reptiles. The fourth section concerns avian origins, and the
final section treats the origins and early diversification of
mammals. With an overall goal of stimulating critical evaluation by
the reader rather than providing unequivocal answers, this volume
will be of particaular interest to vertebrate paleontologists,
evolutionary morphologists, and ichthyological, herpatological,
avian, and mammalian systematists.
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