The Rise of Fishes
Subtitle: 500 Million Years of Evolution
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: June 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801854385
Subjects: Aquaculture & fishing: practice & techniques; Evolution; Fishes (ichthyology); Palaeontology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Fish; Animals; Nature/Ecology; General; Science / Biology; Fishes
First sentence: The oldest ancestors of the fishes date back to one small worm-like beast called Pikaia, from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia, Canada.