Evolving animals
Subtitle: the story of our kingdom
By: Wallace Arthur, Emeritus Professor of Zoology, National University of Ireland, Galway ; illustrations by Stephen Arthur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781107049635; 9781107627956
Subjects: Evolution (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. What is an animal?; title: 2. Before there were animals; title: 3. How to make a fossil; title: 4. The Cambrian explosion; title: 5. How to make a species; title: 6. Jellyfish and their kin; title: 7. How to make a tree; title: 8. The enigmatic urbilaterian; title: 9. Animal symmetry and heads; title: 10. A plethora of worms; title: 11. Trends in animal complexity; title: 12. Where the octopus is king; title: 13. How to make an animal; title: 14. Exoskeletons galore; title: 15. Extinction; title: 16. Mouth first, mouth second; title: 17. Comparing embryos; title: 18. Larvae, mouthparts and moulting; title: 19. The animal toolkit; title: 20. Vertebrate origins and evolution; title: 21. From water to land to water; title: 22. Variation and inheritance; title: 23. Evolutionary novelties; title: 24. Human origins and evolution; title: 25. Animal plasticity; title: 26. The nature of adaptation; title: 27. The direction of evolution; title: 28. Animal extremophiles; title: 29. Extraterrestrial animals?; title: 30. The ghost in the machine.