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Smith, Geoffrey

 
9781107605824: Primitive Animals

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This 1911 volume describes chief groups in the animal kingdom and traces some of the main streams of animal evolution.

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Geoffrey Smith's Primitive Animals, which was first published in 1911 as part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, contains an account of the chief groups in the animal kingdom and the evidence by which some of the main streams of animal evolution can be traced.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. The animal kingdom; 2. The simplest animals and plants and the origin of life; 3. The appendiculate phylum; 4. Embryonic and larval histories; 5. The ancestry of the vertebrates; 6. The origin of the land vertebrates; 7. The rise of the mammalia; 8. Reflections on the past and future of animal life; Appendix A. Classification of the chief animal phyla; Appendix B. A table of the chief geological epochs; Index.

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