Before the Backbone Views on the origin of the vertebrates /

• Main Author: Gee, Henry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

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 que...

Table of Contents:

• The origins of vertebrates
• Head to head
• Jefferies’ Calcichordate Theory
• Conclusions.