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"An excellent, comprehensive overview of the diversity and evolutionary history of amphibians. It reflects a lifetime of specimen-based research on and thinking about the subject by the foremost student of early evolution of land vertebrates." -- Hans-Dieter Sues, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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Any college collection strong in natural history catering to geologists, evolutionary biologists or paleontologists needs this by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)

5 Stars
October 19, 2009
THE RISE OF AMPHIBIANS: 365 MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION provides college-level natural history collections with a powerful synthesis of findings from the fossil record of amphibians. Robert Carroll traces their origin back 365 million years and follows the emergency of the modern amphibian group, using over two hundred illustrations of fossil amphibians and sixteen color plates to enhance the study. Any college collection strong in natural history catering to geologists, evolutionary biologists or paleontologists needs this.

365 million years by Herpmajor (Carbondale, IL USA)

5 Stars
July 13, 2009
This book is jam packed with great information on both fossil amphibians and the evolution of amphibians. It also covers the evolution of the first amniotes.

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