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Invasions of the land : the transitions of organisms from aquatic to terrestrial life

Title
Invasions of the land : the transitions of organisms from aquatic to terrestrial life / Malcolm S. Gordon and Everett C. Olson.
Author
Gordon, Malcolm S.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
Olson, Everett C. (Everett Claire), 1910-1993.
Description
xv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-300) and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The Physical Settings of Land Invasions -- 3. Plant Transitions to Land -- 4. Fossil Evidence of Metazoan Transitions: Cambrian Through Middle Silurian -- 5. Fossil Evidence of Metazoan Transitions: Late Silurian and Devonian -- 6. Fossil Evidence of Metazoan Transitions: Permo-Carboniferous and Later -- 7. Functional Evidence from Living Molluscs -- 8. Functional Evidence from Living Annelids and Crustaceans -- 9. Functional Evidence from Living Vertebrates -- 10. Summary and Synthesis.
ISBN
023106876X
LCCN
94020344
OCLC
  • 30511427
  • ocm30511427
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries