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9780198507611

The Origin And Evolution Of Mammals

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    9780198507611

  • ISBN10:

    0198507615

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment. This book is an account of the remarkable fossil records that document their origin since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Tracing their evolution over the last 35 million years. For the first time presented in one single volume Kemp unveils the exciting DNA sequence evidence which coupled with fossil evidence challenges current thinking on the relationships amongst mammal and their inferred history.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The definition of Mammalia
1(2)
A sketch of the plot
3(1)
Palaeobiological questions
4(2)
Time and classification
The geological timescale
6(3)
Classification
9(5)
Evolution of the mammal-like reptiles
The vertebrate conquest of land: origin of the Amniota
14(5)
Pelycosauria: the basal synapsid radiation
19(7)
The origin and early radiation of the Therapsida
26(5)
Biarmosuchia
31(2)
Dinocephalia
33(6)
Anomodontia
39(13)
Gorgonopsia
52(4)
Therocephalia
56(4)
Cynodontia
60(15)
Interrelationships of Cynodontia and the phylogenetic position of Mammalia
75(3)
Overview of the interrelationships and evolution of the Therapsida
78(2)
The palaeoecology and evolution of Synapsida
80(10)
Evolution of mammalian biology
Feeding
90(11)
Locomotion
101(12)
Sense organs and brain
113(7)
Growth and development
120(1)
Temperature physiology
121(8)
An integrated view of the origin of mammalian biology
129(6)
The significance of miniaturisation
135(3)
The Mesozoic mammals
The diversity of the Mesozoic mammals
138(42)
An overview of the interrelationships and evolution
180(3)
The general biology of the Mesozoic mammals
183(3)
End of the era: the K/T mass extinction and its aftermath
186(5)
Living and fossil marsupials
Living marsupials and their interrelationships
191(5)
The fossil record of marsupials
196(20)
An overview of marsupial evolution
216(6)
Living and fossil placentals
Living placentals and their interrelationships
222(4)
Cretaceous fossils
226(4)
Palaeocene fossils: the archaic placentals
230(20)
The origin and radiation of the modern orders
250(24)
Overview of placental evolution
274(17)
References 291(34)
Index 325

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