The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms
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The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms

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The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms

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The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms offers a thorough and detailed narration of the journey of biological evolution and its major transitional links to the biological world, which began with paleontological exploration of extinct organisms and now carries on with reviews of phylogenomic footprint reviews of extant, living fossils. This book moves through the defining evolutionary stepping stones starting with the evolutionary changes in prokaryotic, aquatic organisms over 4 billion years ago to the emergence of the modern human species in Earth's Anthropocene. The book begins with an overview of the processes of evolutionary fitness, the epicenter of the principles of evolutionary biology. Whether through natural or experimental occurrence, evolutionary fitness has been found to be the cardinal instance of evolutionary links in an organism between its ancestral and contemporary states. The book then goes on to detail evolutionary trails and lineages of groups of organisms including mammalians, reptilians, and various fish. The final section of the book provides a look back at the evolutionary journey of "nonliving" or extinct organisms, versus the modern-day transition to "living" or extant organisms. The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms is the ideal resource for any researcher or advanced student in evolutionary studies, ranging from evolutionary biology to general life sciences. - Provides an updated compendium of evolution research history - Details the evolution trails of organisms, including mammals, reptiles, arthropods, annelids, mollusks, protozoa, and more - Offers an accessible and easy-to-read presentation of complex, in-depth evolutionary biology facts and theories

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Yes, you can access The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms by Subir Ranjan Kundu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences biologiques & Biologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780128226551
eBook ISBN
9780128232835
Topic
Sciences biologiques
Subtopic
Biologie

Table of contents

  1. The Evolutionary Biology of Extinct and Extant Organisms
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Content
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Missing link: When an “outmoded term” holds “in-between features” between the ancestors and its descendants
  9. Chapter 1 The transitional features of “missing link” illuminate the molecular nuts and bolts of biological evolution
  10. Chapter 2 If and when evolution is the ultimate essence of life
  11. Chapter 3 Walking with Cynodont to explore the uncharted evolutionary trail of mammalian lineage diverged out of reptilian
  12. Chapter 4 One small step for amphibious fish, one evolutionary leap for moving tetrapods on Earth
  13. Chapter 5 Evolutionary origin of amniotic egg
  14. Chapter 6 When contemporary discoveries pushes the bony fish to ancestral or evolutionary back seat and discreetly pushes cartilaginous fish in the advanced or front seat
  15. Chapter 7 Hemichordates
  16. Chapter 8 Cambrian evolution of Onychophorans
  17. Chapter 9 The extent of Ctenophore uniqueness—distinctly recognized to be “quasi-Cnidarians” or “stunted Bilaterians”
  18. Chapter 10 The Protistan link in transition
  19. Chapter 11 Evolutionary mysticism of Euglena
  20. Chapter 12 Virus
  21. Chapter 13 Once there was an ancestor between humans and apes
  22. Chapter 14 Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam on planet Earth
  23. Conclusion: Missing link: In search of our distant cousins footprints, a quest for our evolutionary journey to the past
  24. References
  25. Index