Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear Evidence from the Fossil Record /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Clack, Jennifer A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Fay, Richard R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Popper, Arthur N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 59
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Medicine & Public Health.

The evolution of vertebrate hearing is of considerable interest in the hearing community. However, there has never been a volume that has focused on the paleontological evidence for the evolution of hearing and the ear, especially from the perspective of some of the leading paleontologists and evolu...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Vertebrate Diversity in a Sensory System: The Fossil Record of Otic Evolution
• Actinopterygians: The Ray-Finned Fishes—an Explosion of Diversity
• Sarcopterygians: From Lobe-Finned Fishes to the Tetrapod Stem Group
• Early Tetrapods: Experimenting with Form and Function
• Nonmammalian Synapsids: The Beginning of the Mammal Line
• Evolution of the Middle and Inner Ears of Mammaliaforms: The Approach to Mammals
• Evolution of the Ear of Mammals: From Monotremes to Humans
• Basal Reptilians, Marine Diapsids, and Turtles: The Flowering of Reptile Diversity
• The Lepidosaurian Ear: Variations on a Theme
• Archosaurs and their Kin: The Ruling Reptiles
• Amphibia: A Case of Diversity and Convergence in the Auditory Region.