00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-1685594773862019785 Buklod 20160222065019.0 g||| | || || ta 160222s2014 enka r |001 0|eng d 978470671788 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00019853749 BC-66243 Linar Php5,200.00 DLC BAG rda eng QE 867 S36 2014 Schoch, Rainer R. 1970- author. Amphibian evolution the life of early land vertebrates Rainer R. Schoch. Chichester, West Sussex, UK Wiley Blackwell ©2014. xi, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 26 cm Topics in paleobiology Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- The amphibian world : now and then -- Amphibian life through time -- The amphibian soft body -- Evolution of functional systems -- Development and evolution -- Paleoecology -- Life history evolution -- Phylogeny -- Macroevolution -- Index -- Plate section between pages 124 and 125. This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies in the past 370 million years and necessarily deals with many fossils, it is far from restricted to paleontology. The aim is to achieve a comprehensive picture of amphibian evolution. It focuses on major questions in current paleobiology: how diverse were the early tetrapods? Amphibians, Fossil. Paleobiology. Amphibians Evolution. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QE 867 S36 2014 Book