How Vertebrates Left the Water

by Michel Laurin

More than three hundred million years ago--a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared--vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod species. Michel Laurin uses paleontological, geological, physiological, and comparative anatomical data to describe this monumental event. He summarizes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520266471
• ISBN13: 9780520266476
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"