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• Title:The rise of amphibians : 365 million years of evolution / Robert Carroll.
  
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• Author/Creator:Carroll, Robert L. (Robert Lynn), 1938-
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QL645.3 .C37 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QL645.3 .C37 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Amphibians--Evolution.
  
• Description:xii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-354) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780801891403 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  080189140X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. History of the Earth and Life
  2. Advanced Metazoans and the Ancestry of Vertebrates
  3. Origin of Amphibians
  4. Radiation of Carboniferous Amphibians
  5. Adaptation, Radiation, and Relationships
  6. Zenith of Amphibian Diversity
  7. Origin of Amniotes: Escape from the Water
  8. Stereospondyls: Escape from the Land
  9. Enigma of Modern Amphibian Origins
  10. Ancestry of Frogs
  11. Ancestry of Salamanders
  12. Eocaecilia and the Origin of Caecilians
  13. Success of Modern Amphibians
  14. Future of Amphibians
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