Title

The rise of amphibians : 365 million years of evolution / Robert Carroll.

Author

Carroll, Robert L. (Robert Lynn), 1938-

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Subject

• Amphibians > Evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-354) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. History of the earth and life -- 2. Advanced metazoans and the ancestry of vertebrates -- 3. The origin of amphibians -- 4. The radiation of carboniferous amphibians -- 5. Adaptation, radiation, and relationships -- 6. The zenith of amphibian diversity -- 7. The origin of amniotes: escape from the water -- 8. Stereospondyls: escape from the land -- 9. The enigma of modern amphibian origins -- 10. The ancestry of frogs -- 11. The ancestry of salamanders -- 12. Eocaecilia and the origin of caeclians -- 13. The success of modern amphibians -- 14. The future of amphibians.

ISBN

• 9780801891403 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 080189140X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008024792

OCLC

231947315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library