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Author : Kenneth V. Kardong
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
ISBN : UCSD:31822025763889
Author : Michel Laurin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520947986
More than three hundred million years ago—a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared—vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod species. Michel Laurin uses paleontological, geological, physiological, and comparative anatomical data to describe this monumental event. He summarizes key concepts of modern paleontological research, including biological nomenclature, paleontological and molecular dating, and the methods used to infer phylogeny and character evolution. Along with a discussion of the evolutionary pressures that may have led vertebrates onto dry land, the book also shows how extant vertebrates yield clues about the conquest of land and how scientists uncover evolutionary history.
Author : S. M. Kisia
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439840528
Describing the diversity and features of various vertebrate groups, ranging from the oldest living fishes to the relatively more recent evolution of mammals, this book covers anatomical systems including organs and tissues, as well as their function and differentiation in various vertebrate groups. The authors also discuss the evolution of vertebra
Author : Vincent Bels,Ian Q. Whishaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030137397
This book provides students and researchers with reviews of biological questions related to the evolution of feeding by vertebrates in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Based on recent technical developments and novel conceptual approaches, the book covers functional questions on trophic behavior in nearly all vertebrate groups including jawless fishes. The book describes mechanisms and theories for understanding the relationships between feeding structure and feeding behavior. Finally, the book demonstrates the importance of adopting an integrative approach to the trophic system in order to understand evolutionary mechanisms across the biodiversity of vertebrates.
Author : Gerardo De Iuliis,Dino Pulerà
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080477350
The Dissection of Vertebrates covers several vertebrates commonly used in providing a transitional sequence in morphology. With illustrations on seven vertebrates – lamprey, shark, perch, mudpuppy, frog, cat, pigeon – this is the first book of its kind to include high-quality, digitally rendered illustrations. This book received the Award of Excellence in an Illustrated Medical Book from the Association of Medical Illustrators. It is organized by individual organism to facilitate classroom presentation. This illustrated, full-color primary dissection manual is ideal for use by students or practitioners working with vertebrate anatomy. This book is also recommended for researchers in vertebrate and functional morphology and comparative anatomy. The result of this exceptional work offers the most comprehensive treatment than has ever before been available. Received the Award of Excellence in an Illustrated Medical Book from the Association of Medical Illustrators Expertly rendered award-winning illustrations accompany the detailed, clear dissection direction Organized by individual organism to facilitate classroom presentation Offers coverage of a wide range of vertebrates Full-color, strong pedagogical aids in a convenient lay-flat presentation
Author : Walter D. Koenig,Janis L. Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107043435
Brings together long-term studies of cooperation in vertebrates that challenge our understanding of the evolution of social behavior.
Author : Philippe Janvier
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198526466
This book presents our current knowledge of the early vertebrates, which were mainly fish, but included some land vertebrates, and lived 470 to 250 million years ago. It centres on anatomical and phylogenetic questions, but includes information about fossil discovery and preparation, as wellas the analysis of the characteristics from which their relationships may be reconstructed. It addresses critically both old and new problems in the evolution of certain anatomical structures and deals briefly with the animals' way of life, extinction, and former distribution.In addition, the author gives a potted history of the field of vertebrate palaentology and the rise of cladistics, a cmajor methodological revolution in comparative biology. The book is the first in this field to use a cladistic approach. For each major vertebrate group, the reader will find a diagram or relationships, or cladogram, with a selection of characters at each node, and a succinct phlyogenetic classification.
Author : Brian Keith McNab
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801439132
Though physiological ecology has been a discipline since the 1950s, McNab redresses a perceived absence of a theoretical framework with a comparative, inductive approach to studying vertebrate evolution and ecology. He discusses the patterns and limits of adaptation to the environment, acclimation to temperature variation and material exchange with the environment, and the energetics of locomotion and growth. The final section treats the significance of energetics for population ecology and distribution. Includes a taxonomic as well as subject index. Suitable for advanced students and researchers in the biological and ecological sciences. The Gainesville, FL-based author is referred to by the foreword writer as a keen naturalist, but his credentials are not stated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : James R. Bloedel,Timothy J. Ebner,Steven P. Wise
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Classical conditioning
ISBN : 0262024047
Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and in carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic talents, we are not perpetually bound by such limitations. The nervous system can acquire new, and modify old, motor behaviors through experience and practice. That is motor learning.The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebratesprovides a broad, multidisciplinary survey of recent research on the brain systems and mechanisms underlying motor learning. Following the editors' introduction, nineteen contributions report on the neurobiology of these higher brain functions and on diverse types of motor learning such as reflex adaptation, conditioned and instrumental reflex learning, visually guided actions, and complex sequences and skills.
Author : Ted O'Hare
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781606940730
Discusses All Classes Of Vertebrates, Including Their Body Structures, Feeding Habits, Where They Live And Their Reproductive Cycles.
Author : Kenneth Kardong
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780077171926
This one-semester text is designed for an upper-level majors course. Vertebrates features a unique emphasis on function and evolution of vertebrates, complete anatomical detail, and excellent pedagogy. Vertebrate groups are organized phylogenetically, and their systems discussed within such a context. Morphology is foremost, but the author has developed and integrated an understanding of function and evolution into the discussion of anatomy of the various systems.
Author : Lluis Tort,Edward Narayan,John Cockrem
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889633173
Author : Richard Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : BSB:BSB10308419
Author : S. N. Prasad,Vasantika Kashyap
Publisher : New Age International
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : 0852269285
Author : Nelson G. Hairston
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521417031
This is a major new textbook that is intended to lead students away from purely descriptive zoology courses into an experimental approach that emphasizes asking and answering questions about nature. The book gives a panoramic view of vertebrate life, classification, ecology and behaviour. Section I of the book describes the major groups of vertebrates and their origins. The second section covers classification and its methodology. Section III describes the ecology of vertebrates from two standpoints: how individuals cope with environmental extremes, and principles of population and community ecology as illustrated by experiments carried out in the field. Section IV describes the geographic distribution of vertebrates. The fifth section discusses migration. Vertebrate behaviour is the subject of the final section and covers observations and the theories and experiments they have inspired.