The rise of fishes : 500 million years of evolution / John Long
- Bib ID:
- 4903091
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Long, John A., 1957-
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press Pty Ltd, 2010
- xiv, 287 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781742232522
- Summary:
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Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like and are monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through The Rise of Fishes John A. Longs richly illustrated tour of the past 500 million years.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Earth, rocks, evolution, and fish
- 2. Glorified swimming worms : the first fishes
- 3. Jawless wonders
- 4. Armored fishes and fishes without arms
- 5. Sharks and their cartilaginous kin
- 6. Spiny-jawed fishes
- 7. An epiphany of evolution
- 8. Primitive ray-finned fishes
- 9. Teleosteans, the champions
- 10. The ghost fish and other primeval predators
- 11. Strangers in the bite : dipnomorphans
- 12. Big teeth, strong fins
- 13. The greatest step in evolution.
- Notes:
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- Prvious ed.: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
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