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Presents current knowledge of the early vertebrates - mainly fish, but including some terrestrial vertebrates - which lived about 250 to 470 million years ago, focussing on anatomical and phylogenetic questions.
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Introduction; 1. What, where and when? Early vertebrates as we imagine them; 2. From rocks to theories: techniques of preparation and methods of analysis; 3. A look at extant vertebrates; 4. Early vertebrates and their extant relatives; 5. Interrelationships of the major craniate taxa: current phylogenetic theories and controversies; 6. Anatomical philosophy: homologies, transformations and character phylogenies; 7. Evolution and life history; 8. Women, men, and early vertebrates; Epilogue
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