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Completing the Transition to Land
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Edited By
Stuart Sumida, California State University, San Bernardino, U.S.A.
Karen Martin, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, U.S.A.
Description
Amniote Origins integrates modern systematic methods with studies of functional and physiological processes, and illustrates
how studies of paleobiology can be illuminated by studies of neonatology. For this reason, comparative anatomists and physiologists,
functional morphologists, zoologists, and paleontologists will all find this unique volume very useful. Inspired by the prospect of integrating
fields that have long been isolated from one another, Amniote Origins provides a thorough and interdisciplinary synthesis
of one of the classic transitions of evolutionary history.
Audience
AUDIENCE: Ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and researchers in all branches of comparative
vertebrate biology, including vertebrate paleobiologists, vertebrate anatomists and physiologists, functional morphologists, zoologists,
and paleontologists.
Contents
Acknowledgments.
Contributors.K.L.M. Martin and S.S. Sumida, An Integrated Approach to the Origin of Amniotes: Completing the
Transition to Land.
Phylogenetic Perspective:
M. Laurin and R.R. Reisz, A New Perspective in Tetrapod Phylogeny.
M.Y.S. Lee and P.S. Spencer, Crown-Clades, Key Characters and Taxonomic Stability: When is an Amniote not an Amniote?
Biogeographical
Perspective:
D.S. Berman, S.S. Sumida, and R.E. Lombard, Biogeography ofPrimitive Terrestrial Amniotes.J.B. Graham,
N. Aguilar, R. Dudley, and C. Gans, The Late Paleozoic Atmosphere and the Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology of Tetrapods.
Feeding:
G.V. Lauder and G.B. Gillis, Origin of the Amniote Feeding Mechanism: Experimental Analysis of Outgroup Clades.N. Hotton
III, E.C. Olson, and R. Beerbower, The Amniote Transition and the Discovery of Herbivory.
The Amniote Egg:
M.J. Packard and R.S. Seymour, Evolution of the Amniote Egg.J. Stewart, Morphology and Evolution of the Egg of Oviparous
Amniotes.
Morphological Changes:
L. Frolich, The Role of the Skin in the Origin of Amniotes: Permeability Barrier,
Protective Covering, and Mechanical Support.S.S. Sumida, Locomotor Features of Taxa Spanning the Origin of Amniotes.
Integrative
Biology and the Origin of Amniotes:
K.L.M. Martin and K.A. Nagy, Water Balance and the Physiology of the Amniote Transition.
T. Garland, K.L.M. Martin, and R. Diaz-Uriarte, Reconstructing Ancestral Trait Values Using Squared Change Parsimony: Plasma
Osmolarity at the Amniote Transition.
Subject Index.
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Hardbound, 510 pages, publication date: DEC-1996
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-676460-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-676460-3
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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