Invertebrates
Contributors: Nancy J. Haver (Illustrator)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Sinauer Associates
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 936
ISBN-13: 9780878930975
Subjects: Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates; Invertebrates
First sentence: One of the first evolutionary trees of life conceived from a Darwinian (genealogical) perspective was published by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 (Figure 1.1).
Table of contents: title: Classification, systematics, and phylogeny; title: Animal architecture and the bauplan concept; title: Animal development, life histories, and origins; title: The protists; title: Phylum Porifera : the sponges; title: Four phyla of uncertain affinity; title: Phylum Cnidaria; title: Phylum Ctenophora : the comb jellies; title: Phylum Platyhelminthes; title: Phylum Nemertea : the ribbon worms; title: Blastocoelomates and other phyla; title: Phylum Annelida : the segmented worms; title: Sipuncula and Echiura; title: The emergence of the arthropods : onychophorans, tardigrades, trilobites, and the arthropod bauplan; title: Phylum Arthropoda : the Crustacea; title: Phylum Arthropoda : the Hexapoda (insects and their kin); title: Phylum Arthropoda : the myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, and their kin); title: Phylum Arthropoda : the Cheliceriformes; title: Phylum Mollusca; title: Lophophorates; title: Phylum Echinodermata; title: Other deuterostomes : Chaetognatha, Hemichordata, Chordata; title: Perspectives on invertebrate phylogeny