Animals
- Editor: Robert McNeill Alexander
- Date Published: April 2011
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- isbn: 9780511873027
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This book is about the major groups of animals, their structure, physiology and ways of life. Each chapter, except the first, deals with a taxonomic group of animals, usually a phylum or class. Brief descriptions of a few examples are followed by more detailed discussion of selected topics. Some of the topics are peculiarities of the groups (for example, the shells of molluscs and the flight of insects). Others are more widespread features or properties of animals which can be illustrated particularly well by reference to the group. Many experiments are described, on the grounds that it is as important and interesting to know how information is obtained, as to know the information itself. The text demonstrates the extraordinary diversity of animals, without becoming encumbered with excessive morphological and taxonomic information.
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511873027
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Single-celled animals
3. Animals with mesogloea
4. Flatworms
5. Rotifers and roundworms
6. Molluscs
7. Segmented animals
8. Crustaceans
9. Insects
10. Bryozoans and brachiopods
11. Starfish and sea urchins
12. Primative chordates
13. Sharks and some other fishes
14. Teleosts and their relatives
15. Lungfishes and amphibians
16. Reptiles
17. Birds
18. Mammals and their relatives.
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