Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods / Jennifer A. Clack.

"Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure -- emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clack, Jennifer A., 1937- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Edition:	Second edition.
Series:	Life of the past.
Subjects:	From 280 to 405 million years ago Lungfishes, Fossil. Amphibians, Fossil. Leg > Evolution. Paleontology > Devonian. Paleontology > Carboniferous. NATURE > Fossils. SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution. Amphibians, Fossil Carboniferous Geologic Period Devonian Geologic Period Lungfishes, Fossil Paleontology
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : The Origin of Tetrapods
Skulls and Skeletons in Transition
Relationships and Relatives : The Lobe-Fin Family
Setting the Scene : The Devonian World
The First Feet : Tetrapods of the Famennian
From Fins to Feet : Transformation and Transition
Emerging into the Carboniferous : The First Phase
East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree
The Late Carboniferous : Expanding Horizons
Gaining Ground : The Evolution of Terrestriality.

Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods / Jennifer A. Clack.

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