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"It is in my view the most important book in vertebrate evolution since Simpson's Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944), because of what it offers as a summary, an integration, and above all a prospectus for vertebrate biologists of a new synthesis that is showing all signs of a very healthy infancy. Our next generation of scientists would do well to train themselves as Carroll has done in order to fulfill his vision of what integrative vertbrate biology can become." Science
"Every now and again, a brave paleontologist stands back and looks over the collection for anything that links all the tales together...Robert Carroll has broken new ground. He views the fossil record with the eyes of a biologist and a geologist...Not since 1953, when George Gaylord Simpson published Major Features of Evolution has there been such a well-founded overview of vertebrate fossils, their distribution in time and space, relationships with other organisms and with the environment..." New Scientist
"Bob Carroll's latest book provides the first modern review of large scale patterns in the evolution of vertebrates viewed in the context of current evolutionary theory. A veritable tour de force...Carroll's book is well written and effectively illustrated...Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution will form an essential resource for all students of the evolution of vertebrates, but it can also be read with profit by anyone concerned with general issues of contemporary evolutionary biology." American Paleontologist
"Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution is a masterful overview of evolution as it is understood by many vertebrate paleontologists and others today...Carroll writes clearly and rapidly-the whole is remarkably up to date, with meaningful incorporation of much current literature...this is a fine book." The Society for the Study of Evolution
"...excellent review of the vast recent literature on development, particularly rewarding reading." American Paleontologist
"Carroll's overview is welcome, well organized...and will prove to be a very useful backdrop to undergraduate courses on general evolution, or vertabrate history." Geological Magazine
"The book covers a broad compass and the author provides accounts of the immense range of biological and geological topics. It is a useful addition to the literature on fossils and evolution." Historical Biology
"Every now and again, a brave paleontologist stands back and looks over the collection for anything that links all the tales together...Robert Carroll has broken new ground. He views the fossil record with the eyes of a biologist and a geologist...Not since 1953, when George Gaylord Simpson published Major Features of Evolution has there been such a well-founded overview of vertebrate fossils, their distribution in time and space, relationships with other organisms and with the environment..." New Scientist
"Bob Carroll's latest book provides the first modern review of large scale patterns in the evolution of vertebrates viewed in the context of current evolutionary theory. A veritable tour de force...Carroll's book is well written and effectively illustrated...Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution will form an essential resource for all students of the evolution of vertebrates, but it can also be read with profit by anyone concerned with general issues of contemporary evolutionary biology." American Paleontologist
"Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution is a masterful overview of evolution as it is understood by many vertebrate paleontologists and others today...Carroll writes clearly and rapidly-the whole is remarkably up to date, with meaningful incorporation of much current literature...this is a fine book." The Society for the Study of Evolution
"...excellent review of the vast recent literature on development, particularly rewarding reading." American Paleontologist
"Carroll's overview is welcome, well organized...and will prove to be a very useful backdrop to undergraduate courses on general evolution, or vertabrate history." Geological Magazine
"The book covers a broad compass and the author provides accounts of the immense range of biological and geological topics. It is a useful addition to the literature on fossils and evolution." Historical Biology
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This new text provides an integrated view of the forces that influence the patterns and rates of vertebrate evolution from the level of living populations and species to those that resulted in the origin of the major vertebrate groups. The evolutionary roles of behavior, development, continental drift, and mass extinctions are compared with the importance of variation and natural selection that were emphasized by Darwin. It is extensively illustrated, showing major transitions between fish and amphibians, dinosaurs and birds, and land mammals to whales. No book since Simpson's Major Features of Evolution has attempted such a broad study of the patterns and forces of evolutionary change. Undergraduate students taking a general or advanced course on evolution, and graduate students and professionals in evolutionary biology and paleontology will find the book of great interest.
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Evolution is the greatest unifying principle in biology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intrinsic evolutionary rate, modern avian orders, modern amphibian orders, ornithurine birds, nonvertebrate metazoans, low selection coefficients, adductor chamber, more advanced birds, modern bird orders, immediate common ancestry, paracone height, osteolepiform fish, triosseal canal, major new structures, aquatic way, trophic diversification, primitive diapsids, perichondral ossification, phyletic evolution, placental orders, posterior loop, limb evolution, digital arch, anagenetic change, monophyletic assemblage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Lake Victoria, South America, Lake Tanganyika, East African Great Lakes, Lower Cretaceous, Upper Devonian, Early Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Late Devonian, Late Triassic, Macmillan Magazines Limited, Lake Malawi, Lower Triassic, Late Permian, Northern Hemisphere, Upper Permian, Middle Triassic, Upper Triassic, Lower Jurassic, Middle Devonian, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Jurassic, Late Jurassic, Princeton University Press New!
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intrinsic evolutionary rate, modern avian orders, modern amphibian orders, ornithurine birds, nonvertebrate metazoans, low selection coefficients, adductor chamber, more advanced birds, modern bird orders, immediate common ancestry, paracone height, osteolepiform fish, triosseal canal, major new structures, aquatic way, trophic diversification, primitive diapsids, perichondral ossification, phyletic evolution, placental orders, posterior loop, limb evolution, digital arch, anagenetic change, monophyletic assemblage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Lake Victoria, South America, Lake Tanganyika, East African Great Lakes, Lower Cretaceous, Upper Devonian, Early Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Late Devonian, Late Triassic, Macmillan Magazines Limited, Lake Malawi, Lower Triassic, Late Permian, Northern Hemisphere, Upper Permian, Middle Triassic, Upper Triassic, Lower Jurassic, Middle Devonian, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Jurassic, Late Jurassic, Princeton University Press New!
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- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 6 pages
- Speciation and Its Consequences by Daniel Otte on 6 pages
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 1, page 3, and page 145
- The Great American Biotic Interchange (Topics in Geobiology) by Francis G. Stehli in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Perspectives on an Evolving Creation by Keith B. Miller on page 10, page 170, and page 172
- The Human Foot: A Companion to Clinical Studies by Leslie Klenerman on page 7, and page 22
- The Counter-Creationism Handbook by Mark Isaak on page 84, and Back Matter
- Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World by Chris Lavers in Back Matter
- Advances in Parasitology, Vol. 45 by John R. Baker on page 92
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