Olivier Rieppel

Turtles as Hopeful Monsters

Origins and Evolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Olivier Rieppel is Rowe Family Curator of Evolutionary Biology at the Field Museum in Chicago. He is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has himself published more than 350 scientific papers and eight books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 187mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 853g
• ISBN-13: 9780253024756
• ISBN-10: 0253024757
• Artikelnr.: 45001867

Autorenporträt

Olivier Rieppel

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Misplaced Turtles
2. Reptile Classification and Evolution
3. Levels of Evolution
4. Hopeful Monsters
5. The Turtle Shell
6. Fossil Hunting in China
Bibliography
Index