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The Beginning of the Age of Mammals
Kenneth D. Rose
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Description for The Beginning of the Age of Mammals
Hardback. The life's work of one of the most knowledgeable researchers in the field, this richly illustrated, magisterial book combines sound scientific principles and meticulous research and belongs on the shelf of every paleontologist and mammalogist. Num Pages: 448 pages, 308, 282 figures, 26 colour plates. BIC Classification: PSVW7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 282 x 226 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1534.
In the tradition of G. G. Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious K-T boundary which so quickly thrust mammals from obscurity to planetary dominance. Rose surveys the evolution of mammals, beginning with their origin from cynodont therapsids in the Mesozoic, contemporary with dinosaurs, through the early Cenozoic, with emphasis on the Paleocene and Eocene adaptive radiations of therian mammals. Focusing on the fossil record, he presents the anatomical evidence used to interpret behavior and phylogenetic relationships. The life's ... Read more
In the tradition of G. G. Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious K-T boundary which so quickly thrust mammals from obscurity to planetary dominance. Rose surveys the evolution of mammals, beginning with their origin from cynodont therapsids in the Mesozoic, contemporary with dinosaurs, through the early Cenozoic, with emphasis on the Paleocene and Eocene adaptive radiations of therian mammals. Focusing on the fossil record, he presents the anatomical evidence used to interpret behavior and phylogenetic relationships. The life's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
1533g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884726
SKU
V9780801884726
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About Kenneth D. Rose
Kenneth D. Rose is a professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a research associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. He is co-editor of The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the ... Read more
Reviews for The Beginning of the Age of Mammals
This beautiful and thorough book will be an essential tool for all those who work on fossil and extant mammals, and for both advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It is a 'must buy' for palaeontological libraries.
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Nature
This volume will be extremely valuable, particularly for mammalogists used to dealing only with the time slice of ... Read more
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Nature
This volume will be extremely valuable, particularly for mammalogists used to dealing only with the time slice of ... Read more