| View Larger Image | Vertebrate Life (8th Edition) | Hardcoverby F. Harvey Pough (Author), Christine M. Janis (Author), John B. Heiser (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Benjamin Cummings | | Edition: | 8th Edition | | Page Count: | 752 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 370,034th |
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Product Description
Widely praised for its comprehensive coverage and exceptionally clear writing style, this best-selling book explores how the anatomy, physiology, ecology, and behavior of animals interact to produce organisms that function effectively in their environments and how lineages of organisms change through evolutionary time. The Eighth Edition features dozens of new figures and photos, updated information from molecular data and evolutionary development, and expanded discussions on global climate change, extinction, and conservation. The Diversity, Classification, and Evolution of Vertebrates, Vertebrate Relationships and Basic Structure, Early Vertebrates: Jawless Vertebrates and the Origin of Jawed Vertebrates, Living in Water, Radiation of the Chondrichthyes, Dominating Life in Water: The Major Radiation of Fishes, Geography and Ecology of the Paleozoic, Living on Land, Origin and Radiation of Tetrapods, Salamanders, Anurans, and Caecilians, Synapsids and Sauropods: Two Approaches to Terrestrial Life, Turtles, The Lepidosaurs: Tuatara, Lizards, and Snakes, Ectothermy: A Low-Cost Approach to Life, Geography and Ecology of the Mesozoic, Mesozoic Diapsids: Dinosaurs, Crocodilians, and Birds, Avian Specializations, The Synapsida the the Evolution of Mammals, Geography and Ecology of the Cenozoic, Mammalian Characteristics and Diversity, Mammalian Specializations, Endothermy: A High-Energy Approach to Life, Body Size, Ecology, and Sociality of Mammals, Primate Evolution and the Emergence of Humans, The Impact of Humans on Other Species of Vertebrates. Intended for those interested in learning the basics of vertebrate life. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Text book by Frances McQuiggin (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)  5 Stars
October 04, 2009
This is the second time I have purchased a textbook for my son who is at university. Even with the shipping costs, the text is generally quite a bit cheaper than what he would pay at the university.
It came promptly and was new, so in excellent shape.
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M. Karrr. Please take a moment TO THINK! by Daniel Dashnaw (Chelsea, ma United States) 5 Stars
March 24, 2009
M. Karr. Sigh..... Are you so dense that you would damage the efforts of gifted academics such as Ms. Janis because you have an issue with the publisher? I mean, do you think that Ms. Janis is actively consulted in their ostensibly heinous marketing maneuvers? Have you ever considered that a good book might be owned by a greedy publisher?
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DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!! by M. Karr  1 Stars
November 17, 2008
Unless this book is specifically required by a class in which you're currently enrolled, you should NOT buy this book! I bought this book, but when I went to their website to download the web content, Pearson told me that ONLY qualified employed instructors were allowed to not only look at the content, but download it as well. This INCLUDES ALL OF THE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BOOK. They published the book in two-colour ink, black and blue, to save on costs by providing the colour images from their website. You will not be given access to these colour images by the publishers!!! In my opinion, this publisher is just ripping off people's money, and giving them a misrepresented product which is inferior in quality. If you have a choice of which vertebrate zoology text to buy, DO NOT BUY ONE FROM PEARSON PUBLISHING!!! They're still giving me the runaround just to even LOOK at the pictures from this textbook which I already purchased($>100!!!). I may end up returning it if no resolution is reached!!!
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Enthusiastically recommended as a college-level text. by Robert E. Plaag (Seattle WA, USA)  4 Stars
March 12, 1999
Vertebrate Life would serve as an excellent upper-level college textbook to anyone interested in becoming informed about vertebrates. Professionally, I am a physicist, who after visiting the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Vertebrates, wanted to learn more about the subject. Even after reading Vertebrate Life, I don't think that I could point out the squamate bone on a fossilized skull. On the other hand, with 733 pages, it is unfair to critize this book about a lack of coverage! The authors provide several pages of excellent references at the end of each chapter. So, if I really wanted to be able to identify a squamate bone, I'm sure that I could have found out from one of references. However, I was troubled by a number of typos, some of the them serious. Figure 15-3 appears to have the second half of the figure repeated as the first half. It would have been nice to see missing illustrations. Figure 3-6b identifies the Otic capsule as "Optic capsule" at one point. This confused me for a while. Even with all this, I was fascinated by what I read, and read the entire book, cover to cover, all 733 pages worth. For the serious student of our natural world, I would recommend spending full price for this book, and plan on spending more than a few hours with it.
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