Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function
Anjali Goswami, Anthony Friscia
Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million years, Carnivora has proven to be a model clade for addressing questions of broad evolutionary significance. This volume brings together top international scientists with contributions that focus on current advances in our understanding of carnivoran relationships, ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns. Topics range from the palaeoecology of the earliest fossil carnivorans to the influences of competition and constraint on diversity and biogeographic distributions. Several studies address ecomorphological convergences among carnivorans and other mammals with morphometric and Finite Element analyses, while others consider how new molecular and palaeontological data have changed our understanding of carnivoran phylogeny. Combined, these studies also illustrate the diverse suite of approaches and questions in evolutionary biology and palaeontology.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2010
Εκδότης:
Cambridge University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
524
ISBN 10:
0521735866
ISBN 13:
9780521735865
Σειρές:
Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Bio
Αρχείο:
PDF, 13.65 MB
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english, 2010