all Products Hardcover Books Life Sciences Science

Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates

Striedter, Georg F.

Select Format

Print Book

Hardcover

Item Condition New

$160.32 USD $168.76 USD

$160.32 USD

~~$168.76 USD~~ $160.32 USD

Sale Sold out

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Quantity

View full details

When did the first vertebrates emerge, and how did they differ from their invertebrate ancestors? When did vertebrates evolve jaws, paired fins, pattern vision, or a neocortex? How have evolutionary innovations such as these impacted vertebrate behavior and success? Georg Striedter and Glenn Northcutt answer these fundamental questions about all major vertebrate lineages. Highlighting the key innovations of each major taxonomic group, they review how evolutionary changes in vertebrate genetics, anatomy, and physiology are reflected in the nervous system. This highly accessible book allows readers to explore a vast expanse of scientific knowledge, ranging from paleoecology to comparative molecular biology, sensory biology to neural circuit evolution, and fossil anatomy to animal behavior.

Brains Through Time examines how vertebrate nervous systems evolved in conjunction with other organ systems and the planet's ecology. Surveying an enormous range of information on genes and proteins, sensory and motor systems, central neural circuits, physiology, and animal behavior, the authors reconstruct the major changes that occurred as vertebrates emerged and then diversified. In the process, readers are transported back in time to key stages of vertebrate evolution, notably the origin of vertebrates, the evolution of paired fins and jaws, the transition to life on land, and the origins of warm-blooded mammals and birds.

Accessories:

No Accessory

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PR

Bisac Major Subject

Science

Binding Type

Hardcover

Country Of Origin

Number Of Units

Length

10.1 Inches

Barcode Indicator

ISBN

Width

7.0 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

Height

1.2 Inches

ISBN 10

0195125681

Weight

3.21 Pounds

Book EAN

9780195125689

Target Audiance

Adults

User reviews will be displayed here...

Item added to your cart

Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates