How Vertebrates Left the Water by Laurin, Michel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Halftitle Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface One How Can We Reconstruct Evolutionary History?

Classification and Biological Nomenclature Modern Phylogenetics Homology and Analogy: Lungs, Swim Bladders, and Gills Geological Time Scale and the Chronology of a Few Key Events A Few Relevant Paleontological Localities

Two Conquest of Land: Data from Extant Vertebrates

Are Animals Still Conquering the Land Today? The Coelacanth, a Living Fossil? Dipnoans: Our Closest Extant Finned Cousins Reproduction among Tetrapods: Amphibians Are Not All Amphibious!

Three Paleontological Context

Four Vertebrate Limb Evolution

The Vertebrate Skeleton Hox Genes and the Origin of Digits Sarcopterygian Fins and the Origin of Digits Fragmentary Fossils, Phylogeny, and the First Digits The Gills of Acanthostega and the Original Function of the Tetrapod Limb Bone Microanatomy and Lifestyle

Five Diversity of Paleozoic Stegocephalians

Temnospondyls Embolomeres Seymouriamorphs Amphibians Diadectomorphs Amniotes Stegocephalian Phylogeny

Six Adaptations to Life on Land

Limbs and Girdles Vertebral Centrum and Axial Skeleton Breathing The Skin and Water Exchange Sensory Organs

Seven Synthesis and Conclusion

Glossary Bibliography Index