Description
Amphibian Evolution: The Life of Early Land Vertebrates 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? In which environments did they live, and how did they come to be preserved? 293 p.
Series: Topics in Paleobiology
- Rainer R. Schoch. Curator and assistant-professor, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany); Curator of amphibians and reptiles, National History Museum of Stuttgart (Germany).
- Publication date (reprint original edition 2014 to digital version): 2017-03.
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