The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy. Arthropod Relationships provides an overview of our current understanding, responding to the new data arising from sequencing DNA, the discovery of new Cambrian fossils as direct evidence of early arthropod history, and developmental genetics. These new areas of research have stimulated a reconsideration of classical morphology and embryology. Arthropod Relationships is the first synthesis of the current debate to emerge: not since the volume edited by Gupta was published in 1979 has the arthropod phylogeny debate been, considered in this depth and breadth. Leaders in the various branches of arthropod biology have contributed to this volume. Chapters focus progressively from the general issues to the specific problems involving particular groups, and thence to a consideration of embryology and genetics. This wide range of disciplines is drawn on to approach an understanding of arthropod relationships, and to provide the most timely account of arthropod phylogeny. This book should be read by evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists, developmental geneticists and invertebrate zoologists. It will have a special interest for post-graduate students working in these fields.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chapman and Hall
ISBN-13
9780412754203
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95666837
Product Key Features
Author
Richard A. Fortey, Richard H. Thomas
Publication Name
Arthropod Relationships
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Zoology, Biology
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
383 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
279mm
Item Width
210mm
Volume
55
Item Weight
1230g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
The Systematics Association Special Volume Series
Editor
Richard A. Fortey, Richard H. Thomas
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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