Gaining ground: the origin and evolution of tetrapods [2nd ed] 9780253356758, 9780253005373, 025300537X, 025335675X

Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure-emerging from

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Gaining ground: the origin and evolution of tetrapods [2nd ed]
 9780253356758, 9780253005373, 025300537X, 025335675X

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

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