Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution - Couverture souple

Carroll, Robert Lynn

 
9780521478090: Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 052147809X ISBN 13 : 9780521478090
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This new text provides an integrated view of the forces that influence the patterns and rates of vertebrate evolution from the level of living populations and species to those that resulted in the origin of the major vertebrate groups. The evolutionary roles of behaviour, development, continental drift, and mass extinctions are compared with the importance of variation and natural selection that were emphasised by Darwin. It is extensively illustrated, showing major transitions between fish and amphibians, dinosaurs and birds, and land mammals and whales. No book since Simpson's Major Features of Evolution has attempted such a broad study of the patterns and forces of evolutionary change. Undergraduate students taking a general or advanced course on evolution, and graduate students and professionals working in evolutionary biology and palaeontology will find the book of great interest.

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Revue de presse

'It is in my view the most important book in vertebrate evolution since Simpson's Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944), because of what it offers as a summary, an integration, and above all a prospectus for vertebrate biologists of a new synthesis that is showing all signs of a very healthy infancy. Our next generation of scientists would do well to train themselves as Carroll has done in order to fulfill his vision of what integrative vertebrate biology can become.' Kevin Padian Science

'Robert Carroll has broken new ground. He views the fossil record with the eyes of a biologist and a geologist ... Not since 1953, when George Gaylord Simpson published Major Features of Evolution, has there been such a well-founded overview of vertebrate fossils, their distribution in time and space, relationships with other organisms and with the environment.' Douglas Palmer New Scientist

'This book is a milestone and is highly recommended. General readers: undergraduate through faculty.' F. S. Szaley, Choice

'... an intellectual tour de force ... Carroll's overview is welcome, well organised, affordable in paperback format and will prove a very useful backdrop to undergraduate courses on general evolution of vertebrate history.' David Norman, University of Cambridge

'Carroll's overview is welcome, well organised, affordable in paperback format and will prove a very useful backdrop to undergraduate courses on general evolution or vertebrate history.' David Norman, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Présentation de l'éditeur

This new text provides an integrated view of the forces that influence the patterns and rates of vertebrate evolution from the level of living populations and species to those that resulted in the origin of the major vertebrate groups. The evolutionary roles of behaviour, development, continental drift, and mass extinctions are compared with the importance of variation and natural selection that were emphasised by Darwin. It is extensively illustrated, showing major transitions between fish and amphibians, dinosaurs and birds, and land mammals and whales. No book since Simpson's Major Features of Evolution has attempted such a broad study of the patterns and forces of evolutionary change. Undergraduate students taking a general or advanced course on evolution, and graduate students and professionals working in evolutionary biology and palaeontology will find the book of great interest.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052147809X
ISBN 13 
9780521478090
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
464
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521472326: Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521472326 ISBN 13 :  9780521472326
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997
Couverture rigide