Full title: Early vertebrates / Philippe Janvier.

Author/creator: Janvier, Philippe.

Date: 1996..

Call Numbers: T0392853

Record Identifier: 74VMQR7BKzR3

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiii, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm., 1. What, where, and when? Early vertebrates as we imagine them -- 2. From rocks to theories: techniques of preparation and methods of analysis -- 3. A survey of extant vertebrates -- 4. Early vertebrates and their extant relatives -- 5. Interrelationships of the major craniate taxa: current phylogenetic theories and controversies -- 6. Anatomical philosophy: homologies, transformations, and character phylogenies -- 7. Evolution, palaeobiogeography and life history -- 8. A short history of research on early vertebrates -- 9. Epilogue.

Publishers: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Notes: Oxford science publications. Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics ; 33. Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-360) and indexes. Transferred from N567/14.

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DDC: 567

MMS ID: 991000445859702626