Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology

By Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich, Kit M. Kovacs

Book Overview

Berta and Sumich have succeeded yet again in creating superior marine reading This book is a succinct yet comprehensive text devoted to the systematics, evolution, morphology, ecology, physiology, and behavior of marine mammals. The first edition, considered the leading text in the field, is required reading for all marine biologists concerned with marine mammals. Revisions include updates of citations, expansion of nearly every chapter and full color photographs. This title continues the tradition by fully expanding and updating nearly all chapters.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0120885522
• ISBN13: 9780120885527
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book

I bought this book for my Marine Mammals class and I love it. I usually don't keep my books at the end of the term, but I think this one's a keeper. It's really interesting and it's smaller than most text books so it's easy to read. It came really fast, within a couple of days with the standard shipping that was like $3.00. I bought 2 books for this class and saved $30.00 from what the school book store would have charged. Good deal.

Fantastic!!

This book is a really great find. It goes through the evolution of cetaceans and pinnapeds. It uses some wild termanology but they are all defined for you. It covers every aspect of marine mammal evolution. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in whales and dolhpins or seals and sea lions.

Es un libro basico

Este es uno de los libros basicos para los mastozoologos marinos, ya que se hace una revision sobre la evolucion de los mamiferos marinos.