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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gee, Henry. Before the backbone. London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1996 (DLC) 95072203 (OCoLC)35669474 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Gee |
ISBN: | 0585252726 9780585252728 6610956375 9786610956371 |
OCLC Number: | 45730088 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | The origins of vertebrates -- Head to head -- Jefferies' Calcichordate Theory -- Conclusions. |
Responsibility: | Henry Gee. |
Abstract:
We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries.
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Henry Gee has admirably mastered a formidable library of scattered reference to bring this timely book together...Palaeontologists, zoologists and geneticists should read this book and learn from it. - Endeavour The book is a true mine of information. - Ethology Ecology & Evolution Before the Backbone is certainly a valuable addition to my bookshelf, and I commend it to all of those interested in vertebrates in particular or in metazoan phylogeny as a whole. - Geological Magazine Read more...
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