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 Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates
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Edited By
Kurt Schwenk, University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A.
Description
As the first four-legged vertebrates, called tetrapods, crept up along the shores of ancient primordial seas, feeding was among the most
paramount of their concerns. Looking back into the mists of evolutionary time, fish-like ancestors can be seen transformed by natural
selection and other evolutionary pressures into animals with feeding habitats as varied as an anteater and a whale. From frog to pheasant
and salamander to snake, every lineage of tetrapods has evolved unique feeding anatomy and behavior.
Similarities in widely divergent
tetrapods vividly illustrate their shared common ancestry. At the same time, numerous differences between and among tetrapods document
the power and majesty that comprises organismal evolutionary history.Feeding is a detailed survey of the varied ways that land
vertebrates acquire food. The functional anatomy and the control of complex and dynamic structural components are recurrent themes of
this volume. Luminaries in the discipline of feeding biology have joined forces to create a book certain to stimulate future studies
of animal anatomy and behavior.
Audience
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students; professional vertebrate biologists; teachers of vertebrate biology/comparative anatomy; vertebrate morphologists; and evolutionary biologists.
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Hardbound, 537 pages, publication date: JUN-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-632590-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-632590-1
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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