Carnivoran evolution new views on phylogeny, form, and function
Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules : new paradigms in evolutionary biology ; 1. |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45428347*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to carnivora / Anjali Goswami
- Phylogeny of the carnivora and carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations / John J. Flynn, John A. Finarelli and Michelle Spaulding
- Phylogeny of the viverridae and 'viverrid-like' feliforms / Geraldine Veron
- Molecular and morphological evidence for ailuridae and a review of its genera / Michael Morlo and Stéphane Peigné
- The influence of character correlations on phylogenetic analyses: a case study of the carnivoran cranium / Anjali Goswami and P. David Polly
- What's the difference?: a multiphasic allometric analysis of fossil and living lions / Matthew H. Benoit
- Evolution in carnivora: identifying a morphological bias / Jill A. Holliday
- The biogeography of carnivore ecomorphology / Lars Werdelin and Gina D. Wesley-Hunt
- Comparative ecomorphology and biogeography of herpestidae and viverridae (carnivora) in Africa and Asia / Gina D. Wesley-Hunt, Reihaneh Dehghani and Lars Werdelin
- Ecomorphological analysis of carnivore guilds in the Eocene through Miocene of Laurasia / Michael Morlo, Gregg F. Gunnell and Doris Nagel
- Ecomorphology of North American Eocene carnivores: evidence for competition between carnivorans and creodonts / Anthony R. Friscia and Blaire Van Valkenburgh
- Morphometric analysis of cranial morphology in pinnipeds (mammalia, carnivora): convergence, ecology, ontogeny, and dimorphism / Katrina E. Jones and Anjali Goswami
- Tiptoeing through the trophics: geographic variation in carnivoran locomotor ecomorphology in relation to environment / P. David Polly
- Interpreting sabretooth cat (carnivora; felidae; machairodontinae) postcranial morphology in light of scaling patterns in felids / Margaret E. Lewis and Michael R. Lague
- Cranial mechanics of mammalian carnivores: recent advances using a finite element approach / Stephen Wroe.
