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This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of
the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data
and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well
as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics. The author
reviews the anatomy and morphology of extant snakes. Methods are
also critiqued, including those empirical and theoretical methods
employed to hypothesize ancestral ecologies for snakes. The modern
debate on squamate phylogeny and snake ingroup phylogeny using
molecules and morphology is examined critically to provide insights
on origins and evolution. Key Features Important major evolutionary
transformation in vertebrate evolution Continuing historical debate
in vertebrate paleontology Of wide interest to a core audience of
paleontologists, herpetologists, and morphologists Author
acknowledged as prominent contributor to debate over snake origins
Based on remarkable well preserved fossil specimens
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Woodsmoke (Paperback)
Wayne Caldwell
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Woodsmoke is a poetry collection that renders the experience of
living out life in a single, exquisite place-"in the shadow of the
mountain my father said was mother to us all"-Mount Pisgah in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Wayne Caldwell, author of
the novel Cataloochee, brings us the waning days of Posey Green,
who cuts his own firewood, looks after himself, and tends to the
land where his wife Birdie and her people are buried. Posey's
colloquial narrative poetry is presented as found verse, conjured
from Posey's internal musings-and these poems alternate with those
of a new neighbor, a sympathetic female poet who observes Posey and
his surroundings and creates a more formal poetic record of his
days.
This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of
the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data
and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well
as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics. The author
reviews the anatomy and morphology of extant snakes. Methods are
also critiqued, including those empirical and theoretical methods
employed to hypothesize ancestral ecologies for snakes. The modern
debate on squamate phylogeny and snake ingroup phylogeny using
molecules and morphology is examined critically to provide insights
on origins and evolution. Key Features Important major evolutionary
transformation in vertebrate evolution Continuing historical debate
in vertebrate paleontology Of wide interest to a core audience of
paleontologists, herpetologists, and morphologists Author
acknowledged as prominent contributor to debate over snake origins
Based on remarkable well preserved fossil specimens
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