This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from several disciplines including biology, geology and palaeontology.
This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from several disciplines including biology, geology and palaeontology.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Preface 1. Introduction: why study fossil horses? 2. A renaissance in paleontology 3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard 4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries 5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and Equidae 6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time 7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance 8. Evolutionary processes: Variation, speciation, and extinction 9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution 10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution 11. What's the use? functional morphology of feeding and locomotion 12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and 'paleoethology' 13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution 14. Epilogue: summary and perspective Appendix References Subject index Taxonomic index.
Preface 1. Introduction: why study fossil horses? 2. A renaissance in paleontology 3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard 4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries 5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and Equidae 6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time 7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance 8. Evolutionary processes: Variation, speciation, and extinction 9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution 10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution 11. What's the use? functional morphology of feeding and locomotion 12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and 'paleoethology' 13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution 14. Epilogue: summary and perspective Appendix References Subject index Taxonomic index.
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