Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure-emerging from
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Table of contents :
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOne IntroductionTwo Skulls and Skeletons in TransitionThree Relationships and Relatives: The Lobe-Fin FamilyFour Setting the Scene: The Devonian WorldFive The First Feet: Tetrapods of the FamennianSix From Fins to Feet: Transformation and TransitionSeven Emerging into the Carboniferous: The First PhaseEight East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family TreeNine The Late Carboniferous: Expanding HorizonsTen Gaining Ground: The Evolution of TerrestrialityReferencesIndex