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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.
Reviews --TREE "...the editors are to be congratulated on a job well done... the volume offers most welcome insights..."
--CHOICE "Careful editing and the focus on integrated, comparative analysis of a single group keep this book from sharing the journal-issue fate of most technical symposium volumes."
--TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION "This book represents the first, broadly integrated look at the anatomical and physiological changes correlated with the origin of amniotes
as evaluated against the cladistic relationships of the pertinent taxa."
--BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY "...includes a very thorough review of the relevant evidence of relationships between fossil forms, but extends well beyond that. This
thorough and profound integration of palaeontological and zoological approaches to the subject is one of the strengths of this symposium.
Another is the breadth of coverage that results. This is going to be the standard reference on its subject for many years."
--AMERICAN SCIENTIST "...this book goes beyond skeletal anatomy and phylogeny to explore many other facets of the transition from amphibious to truly terrestrial
existence. ...the contributors have made a concerted attempt to generate testable hypotheses, and the editors have done an admirable
job of tying this diverse range of topics into a coherent work. This volume will make a significant contribution to the construction
of a research program for the future."
--GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (1999) "The editorship of Stuart Sumida and Karen Martin deserves great praise for a job well done. There is a wide number of areas covered,
and most vertebrate palaobiologists will find something to enjoy or contest. This volume could well be of great use to physiologists
in placing their field in a more holistic, certainly historical perspective. The origin of amniotes really is one of the most fundamental
areas of vertebrate evolutionary studies and this book is a welcome addition."
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