Geoffrey Smith

Primitive Animals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1911 volume describes chief groups in the animal kingdom and traces some of the main streams of animal evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9781107605824
• ISBN-10: 1107605822
• Artikelnr.: 34752108

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The animal kingdom
2. The simplest animals and plants and the origin of life
3. The appendiculate phylum
4. Embryonic and larval histories
5. The ancestry of the vertebrates
6. The origin of the land vertebrates
7. The rise of the mammalia
8. Reflections on the past and future of animal life
Appendix A. Classification of the chief animal phyla
Appendix B. A table of the chief geological epochs
Index.