Monografie over de evolutie van walvissen in de afgelopen acht miljoen jaar.
- Onderwerpen
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Paleontologie | Paleontologie | Walvissen
- Taal
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Engels
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Versies
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The walking whales
- Uitgever
- University of California Press, Oakland, California
- Verschenen
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2015
- ISBN
- 9780520277069
- 0520277066
- Kenmerken
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245 pagina's
- Aantekening
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index
- with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard
- 1. A wasted dig -- Fossils and war -- A whale ear -- 2. Fish, mammal, or dinosaur? -- The king lizard of Cape Cod -- Basilosaurid whales -- Basilosaurids and evolution -- 3. A whale with legs -- The black and white Hills -- a walking whale -- 4. Learning to swim -- Meeting the killer whale -- From dog-paddle to torpedo -- Ambulocetid whales -- Ambulocetus and evolution -- 5. When the mountains grew -- The high Himalayas -- Kidnapping in the hills -- Indian whales -- 6. Passage to India -- Stranded in Delhi -- whales in the desert -- A 150-pound skull -- 7. A trip to the beach -- The outer banks -- A fossilized coast -- 8. The otter whale -- The whale with no hands -- Remingtonocetid whales -- Building a beast out of bones -- 9. The ocean is a desert -- Forensic paleontology -- Drinking and peeing -- Fossilized drinking behavior -- Walking with ambulocetus -- 10. The skeleton puzzle -- If looks could kill -- How many bones make a skeleton? -- Finding whales's sisiters -- 11. The river whales -- Hearing in whales -- Pakicetid whales -- September 11, 2001 -- 12. Whales conquer the world -- A molecular SINE -- The black whale -- Protecetid whales -- Protocetids and history -- 13. From embryos to evolution -- A dolphin with legs -- The marine park at Taiji -- Shedding limbs -- Whaling in Taiji -- 14. Before whales -- The widow's fossils -- The ancestors of whales -- Indohyus -- A trust for fossils -- 15. The way forward -- The big questions -- Tooth development -- Baleen as teeth
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[2e oplage]
- Uitgever
- University of California Press, Oakland, California
- Verschenen
-
2015
- ISBN
- 9780520277069
- Kenmerken
-
245 pagina's
- Aantekening
- Met literatuuropgave, index
- with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard