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The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades
Kenneth D. Rose (Ed.)
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Hardback. Wible, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Andre Wyss, University of California, Santa Barbara. Editor(s): Rose, Kenneth D.; Archibald, J. David. Num Pages: 280 pages, 83, 24 black & white halftones, 59 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSVW7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1021.
From shrews to blue whales, placental mammals are among the most diverse and successful vertebrates on the Earth. Arising sometime near the Late Cretaceous, this broad clade of mammals contains more than 1,000 genera and approximately 4,400 extant species. Although much studied, the origin and diversification of the placentals continue to be a source of debate. Paleontologists Kenneth D. Rose and J. David Archibald have assembled the world's leading authorities to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date evolutionary history of placental mammals. Focusing on anatomical evidence, the contributors present an unbiased scientific account of the initial radiation and ordinal relationships ... Read more
From shrews to blue whales, placental mammals are among the most diverse and successful vertebrates on the Earth. Arising sometime near the Late Cretaceous, this broad clade of mammals contains more than 1,000 genera and approximately 4,400 extant species. Although much studied, the origin and diversification of the placentals continue to be a source of debate. Paleontologists Kenneth D. Rose and J. David Archibald have assembled the world's leading authorities to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date evolutionary history of placental mammals. Focusing on anatomical evidence, the contributors present an unbiased scientific account of the initial radiation and ordinal relationships ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801880223
SKU
V9780801880223
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About Kenneth D. Rose (Ed.)
Kenneth D. Rose is a professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a research associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. J. David Archibald is Professor of Biology and Curator of Mammals in ... Read more
Reviews for The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades
Placental Mammals achieves a balance between molecular work, on the one hand, and anatomical and paleontological work, on the other. Influential figures of twentieth-century studies of placental mammalian phylogenetics are fulsomely acknowledged, particularly W. K. Gregory and G. G. Simpson... A complete treatment of uniformly high quality has emerged... A tribute to the vision and dynamism of the editors, and ... Read more