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Vertebrate Life distills the necessary information from vertebrate
anatomy, physiology, ecology, and behavioral studies and then helps
students see important connections across levels of biological
scale. The result is students come to understand how organisms
function effectively in their environments and how lineages of
organisms change through evolutionary time. Processing complex
detailed information about expansive phylogenies and diverse
anatomies can be difficult for even the most motivated students,
and Vertebrate Life addresses this challenge by combining
appropriately-detailed, clearly-written text with outstanding
phylogenies and figures, making it a thorough and engaging
reference for students and instructors alike. The text's impressive
illustration program helps students visualize complex concepts,
allowing them to parse difficult anatomical information. The 11th
edition will have an upgraded illustration program with several new
and revised figures, including layered figures presented in the new
enhanced eBook.
This second volume completes the unique survey of North American
Tertiary mammals, and covers all the remaining taxa not contained
in Volume 1. It provides a complete listing of mammalian diversity
over time and space, and evaluates the effect of biogeography and
climatic change on evolutionary patterns and faunal transitions,
with the distribution in time and space of each taxon laid out in a
standardized format. It contains six summary chapters that
integrate systematic and biogeographic information for higher taxa,
and provides a detailed account of the patterns of occurrence for
different species at hundreds of different fossil localities, with
the inclusion of many more localities than were contained in the
first volume. With over thirty chapters, each written by leading
authorities, and an addendum that updates the occurrence and
systematics of all of the groups covered in Volume 1, this will be
a valuable reference for paleontologists and zoologists.
This second volume completes the unique survey of North American
Tertiary mammals, and covers all the remaining taxa not contained
in Volume 1. It provides a complete listing of mammalian diversity
over time and space, and evaluates the effect of biogeography and
climatic change on evolutionary patterns and faunal transitions,
with the distribution in time and space of each taxon laid out in a
standardized format. It contains six summary chapters that
integrate systematic and biogeographic information for higher taxa,
and provides a detailed account of the patterns of occurrence for
different species at hundreds of different fossil localities, with
the inclusion of many more localities than were contained in the
first volume. With over thirty chapters, each written by leading
authorities, and an addendum that updates the occurrence and
systematics of all of the groups covered in Volume 1, this will be
a valuable reference for paleontologists and zoologists.
This book is a unique compendium and synthesis of the cumulative
knowledge of more than 100 years of discovery and study of North
American tertiary mammals. The potentially most valuable
contribution of this book is the detailed information of the
distribution in time and space of each species at fossil
localities, recorded in a uniform scheme, so that each chapter
provides the same level of information. Thirty six chapters are
devoted to a particular family or order, written by leading North
American authorities, including discussion of anatomical features,
systematics, and paleobiology. Three introductory chapters
summarize information on the geological time scale, Tertiary
vegetation, and Pleistocene events, and four summary chapters
integrate systematic and biogeographic information for higher taxa.
This book will serve as a unique data base for continuing studies
in faunal diversification and change, and for questions such as how
changing biogeography and climates influenced the evolution of
mammalian communities. It will be an invaluable addition to the
libraries of paleontologists and zoologists.
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