Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

by Neil Shubin

Book Overview

How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques and approaches across a range of fields--work spanning multiple levels of biological organization from DNA sequences to organs and the physiology and ecology of whole organisms--we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022626825X
• ISBN13: 9780226268255
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 3.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.4" x 10.9"