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This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from several disciplines including biology, geology and palaeontology.
This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from several disciplines including biology, geology and palaeontology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Introduction: why study fossil horses?; 2. A renaissance in paleontology; 3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard; 4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries; 5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and Equidae; 6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time; 7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance; 8. Evolutionary processes: Variation, speciation, and extinction; 9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution; 10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution; 11. What's the use? functional morphology of feeding and locomotion; 12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and 'paleoethology'; 13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution; 14. Epilogue: summary and perspective; Appendix; References; Subject index; Taxonomic index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
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Fachbereich: | Gentechnologie |
Genre: | Biologie |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521477086 |
ISBN-10: | 0521477085 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Macfadden, Bruce J. |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 246 x 189 x 21 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bruce J. Macfadden |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.04.2003 |
Gewicht: | 0,741 kg |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Introduction: why study fossil horses?; 2. A renaissance in paleontology; 3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard; 4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries; 5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and Equidae; 6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time; 7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance; 8. Evolutionary processes: Variation, speciation, and extinction; 9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution; 10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution; 11. What's the use? functional morphology of feeding and locomotion; 12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and 'paleoethology'; 13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution; 14. Epilogue: summary and perspective; Appendix; References; Subject index; Taxonomic index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Gentechnologie |
Genre: | Biologie |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521477086 |
ISBN-10: | 0521477085 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Macfadden, Bruce J. |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 246 x 189 x 21 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bruce J. Macfadden |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.04.2003 |
Gewicht: | 0,741 kg |
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