Vertebrate Palaeontology: Instructor's Manual & images from the Book Downloadable to PowerPoint CD-ROM

Vertebrate Palaeontology: Instructor's Manual & images from the Book Downloadable to PowerPoint CD-ROM
ISBN-10
1405130695
ISBN-13
9781405130691
Series
Vertebrate Palaeontology
Category
Science
Pages
472
Language
English
Published
2004-10-22
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Author
Michael J. Benton

Description

Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research, including new material from North and South America, Australia, Europe, China, Africa and Russia. Highlights astonishing new discoveries including new dinosaurs and Mesozoic birds from China features a new chapter on how to study fossil vertebrates provides an increased emphasis on the cladistic framework with cladograms set apart from the body of the text and full lists of diagnostic characters includes new molecular evidence on early mammal diversification new features aid study including new functional and developmental feature spreads, key questions and extensive references to useful web sites strong phylogenetic focus making it an up-to-date source of the latest broad-scale systematic data on vertebrate evolution To access the artwork from the book, please visit: www.blackwellpublishing.com/benton.

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