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Author:   Kenneth D. Rose (Professor of Anatomy, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) ,  J. David Archibald (Professor Emeritus of Biology, San Diego State University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.021kg
ISBN:  

9780801880223

ISBN 10:   080188022
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 May 2005
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Womb With a View: The Rise f Placentals Chapter 2. Looking Back at the Record: George Gaylord Simpson and Paleomammalogy Chapter 3. Anatomical Evidence for Superordinal/Ordinal Eutherian Taxa in the Cretaceous Chapter 4. Molecular Evidence for Major Placental Clades Chapter 5. Insectivoran-Grade Placentals Chapter 6. Macroscelidea and Tubulidentata Chapter 7. Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Relatives) Chapter 8. Xenarthra and Pholidota Chapter 9. Euarchonta (Dermoptera, Scandentia, Primates) Chapter 10. Glires (Lagomorpha, Rodentia) Chapter 11. Chiroptera Chapter 12. Carnivora Chapter 13. Perissodactyla Chapter 14. Artiodactyla Chapter 15. Cetacea Index

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<p>I give this book a glowing review and a high recommendation.--James W. Waddick Science Books and Films (01/01/0001)

Placental Mammals achieves a balance between molecular work, on the one hand, and anatomical and paleontological work, on the other. Influential figures of twentieth-century studies of placental mammalian phylogenetics are fulsomely acknowledged, particularly W. K. Gregory and G. G. Simpson... A complete treatment of uniformly high quality has emerged... A tribute to the vision and dynamism of the editors, and a vindication of their choice of contributors... This timely volume somehow represents that biological cliche: a new synthesis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution The volume should be welcome bedside reading for all mammal systematicists and anyone interested in the evolution of mammals. Science 2005 An excellent summary of current thinking about the higher levels of mammalian evolution. Choice 2006 Not only an up-to-date textbook, but a detailed source of reference for all readers interested in mammals and their evolution. -- Giessen P. Langer Mammalian Biology 2005 I give this book a glowing review and a high recommendation. -- James W. Waddick Science Books and Films 2005 I recommend the book to all those interested in the evolutionary history of placentals. -- Lucja Fostowicz-Frelik Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 2006 An excellent reference on the current state of knowledge and issues surrounding the origin, diversification, and phylogenetic position of placental mammalian clades. -- Christopher C. Gilbert Evolutionary Anthropology 2007

Placental Mammals achieves a balance between molecular work, on the one hand, and anatomical and paleontological work, on the other. Influential figures of twentieth-century studies of placental mammalian phylogenetics are fulsomely acknowledged, particularly W. K. Gregory and G. G. Simpson... A complete treatment of uniformly high quality has emerged... A tribute to the vision and dynamism of the editors, and a vindication of their choice of contributors... This timely volume somehow represents that biological clichA(c): a new synthesis. -- Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Author Information

Kenneth D. Rose is a professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a research associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. J. David Archibald is Professor of Biology and Curator of Mammals in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University. In addition he is a Research Associate at the San Diego Museum of Natural History and the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley. For the past 10 years he has directed the URBAC Paleontological Expeditions to the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, where he and his colleagues search for early placental mammals.

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