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Gaining Ground, Second Edition [Elektronische Ressource] : The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods

2nd ed.

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012

559 p.

Life of the Past

Description based upon print version of record

978-0-253-35675-8

WH 8710 WH 9420

 

f Online-Publikation  Vierfüßer  Landtiere  Evolution  Paläozoologie  Oberdevon  Karbon  Perm, Geologie 

 

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Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure-emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, C...