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The fifth edition includes- for the first time, stunning color photographs throughout- chapters rearranged and grouped to best reflect phylogenetic relationships, with updated numbers of genera and species for each family- updated mammalian structural and functional adaptations, as well as ordinal fossil histories- recent advances in mammalian phylogeny, biogeography, social behavior, and ecology, with 12 new or revised cladograms reflecting current research findings- new breakout boxes on novel or unique aspects of mammals; new work on female post-copulatory mate choice, cooperative…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The fifth edition includes- for the first time, stunning color photographs throughout- chapters rearranged and grouped to best reflect phylogenetic relationships, with updated numbers of genera and species for each family- updated mammalian structural and functional adaptations, as well as ordinal fossil histories- recent advances in mammalian phylogeny, biogeography, social behavior, and ecology, with 12 new or revised cladograms reflecting current research findings- new breakout boxes on novel or unique aspects of mammals; new work on female post-copulatory mate choice, cooperative behaviors, group defense, and the role of the vomeronasal system- discussions of the current implications of climate change and other anthropogenic factors for mammalsMaintaining the accessible, readable style for which Feldhamer and his coauthors are well known, this new edition of Mammalogy is the authoritative textbook on this amazingly diverse class of vertebrates.
Autorenporträt
George A. Feldhamer is the chair of environmental studies and a professor of zoology at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of the lauded text, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, and Ecology and recently served as editor of the encyclopedic work, Wild Mammals of North America.