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16 gru 2013 · The text begins by defining mammals and summarizing their origins. It moves on to discuss the orders and families of mammals with comprehensive coverage on the fossil history, current...
Mammalogy—the study of mammals—is a field of science that deals with this one group of organisms from the diverse biological viewpoints of structure, function, evolutionary history, be-havior, ecology, classification, and economics. Approximately 4,000 species of living mammals and numerous extinct forms comprise the mate-rial for study.
23 maj 2019 · Several excellent accounts of the development of mammalogy in North America exist. Two mammalogy textbooks (Gunderson 1976; Feldhamer et al. 2015) contain chapters on the early history of North American mammalogy.
27 mar 2015 · At the end of the day, the 6th edition of Mammalogy is again an excellent vehicle for communicating the sense of wonder at mammalian biology and diversity that mammalogists share. In fact, most of the material that is new to the 6th edition seem to have been chosen for this laudable purpose.
26 gru 2015 · The current book contains 30 chapters in 5 major sections, spanning diverse topics that should give students a sense of the major topics in the field and will also appeal broadly to the diversity of researchers who study mammals.
22 paź 2018 · up-to-date reviews of the burgeoning fields of mammalian evolution, phylogenetics, and molecular biology. coverage of recent advances in mammalian history and taxonomy. comprehensive summaries of the state-of-the-art in synapsid paleontology.
Mammalogy is the study of mammals from the diverse biological viewpoints of structure, function, evolutionary history, behavior, ecology, classification, and economics. Thoroughly updated, the...
