9789401737784

Before the Backbone

by H. Gee

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9789401737784

Paperback|9789401737784


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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. We would have many a question to ask them if we could - questions never to be solved. Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone When I started this book in 1991, the subject of vertebrate origins was fusty and unfashionable. Early drafts for this preface read like an extend­ ed complaint at the lot of traditional morphologists, cast aside by the march of modern molecular biology. But no longer - this book should reach you at a time of renewed inter­ est in the origin of the vertebrates, our own particular corner of creation. For although the topic has excited interest for well over a century, molec­ ular biology has only lately achieved the maturity necessary to test its predictions. As a legitimate field of study, it is fashionable again.

ISBN-13

9789401737784

ISBN-10

9401737789

Weight

1.15 Pounds

Dimensions

6.10 x 0.84 x 9.25 In

List Price

$169.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

xx, 346 pages

Publisher

Springer

Published On

2013-11-13



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