Vertebrate Life
- ISBN-10
- 0132287277
- ISBN-13
- 9780132287272
- Series
- Vertebrate Life
- Category
- Vertebrates
- Pages
- 798
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Authors
- F. Harvey Pough, John B. Heiser, William Norman MacFarland
Description
Featuring comprehensive coverage and a clear writing style, this textbook integrates the ecology, behaviour, morphology and physiology of vertebrates in a phylogenetic context. It focuses on how animals work and the consequences - in ecological and evolutionary time - of working one way versus another. This updated edition reflects advances in the discipline.
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