Ebook: The origin of snakes : morphology and the fossil record
Author: Caldwell Michael Wayne
- Genre: Biology // Zoology: Paleontology
- Tags: Pygopodidae, Snakes -- Morphology, Snakes Fossil, Squamata -- Phylogeny, Snakes -- Origin, Snakes -- Evolution, NATURE / Animals, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Language: English
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This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics. The author reviews the anatomy and morphology of extant snakes. Methods are also critiqued, including those empirical and theoretical methods employed to hypothesize Read more...