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The Proboscidea - Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and Their Relatives (Hardcover)
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The Proboscidea - Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and Their Relatives (Hardcover)
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The Proboscidea, of which only two species of elephant survive
today, were one of the great mammalian orders of the Cenozoic.
Their success over evolutionary time is reflected by their
morphological and taxonomic diversity, their nearly worldwide
distribution on every continent except Australia and Antarctica,
and their persistence through nearly fifty million years. Their
great past ability to migrate and to adapt to changing climatic
conditions and interspecific competition provides a unique
laboratory for the testing of evolutionary theories and development
of new concepts. This is the first complete treatise on the
evolution and palaeoecology of this group for half a century. It
reviews their classification and phylogeny, the early
differentiation of proboscideans, the major adaptive radiations and
their evolutionary patterns, and the origins and current status of
extant elephant species. Written by leading international experts,
this is a major study documenting the record of terrestrial
biodiversity.
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