This updated, streamlined, generously illustrated Fifth Edition of the classic text combines comparative vertebrate anatomy and embryology into one easy reference source. Provides an overview of vertebrate evolution, a preview of vertebrate embryology, six chapters on vertebrate development, and then goes through each organ system from both a morphogenesis and comparative anatomy standpoint. Also includes extensive discussions of vertebrate evolution, a large section on developmental preliminaries, an extensive glossary and a new bibliography.
- ISBN10 0471623148
- ISBN13 9780471623144
- Publish Date 20 February 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition 5th Edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 528
- Language English