Splendid isolation :
Simpson, George Gaylord
Splendid isolation : the curious history of South American mammals / George Gaylord Simpson. - First Edition - ix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes appendix (pages 255-258) and index (pages 259-266).
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Why, what, and how -- 2. Retrospect on fundamentals -- 3. Time and faunas -- 4. Cast of characters -- 5. Roots -- 6. Firs phase: the old-times alone -- 7. Marsupials -- 8. Xenarthrans: the strange-joint mammals -- 9. Some ungulate old- timers -- 10. Notoungulates -- 11. Second phase: aliens appear -- 12. Old native rodents -- 13. Primates -- 14. Third phase: the great Amrican interchange -- 15. The grear American interchange: special aspects and analyses -- 16. The newcomers and the living fauna -- 17. This history as experiment and evidence.
0300030940 (pbk.) 0300024347
Mammals
Animals, Fossil.
Mammals--Evolution
Mamíferos
Animales fósiles.
Mamíferos--Evolución
599.038098
Splendid isolation : the curious history of South American mammals / George Gaylord Simpson. - First Edition - ix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes appendix (pages 255-258) and index (pages 259-266).
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Why, what, and how -- 2. Retrospect on fundamentals -- 3. Time and faunas -- 4. Cast of characters -- 5. Roots -- 6. Firs phase: the old-times alone -- 7. Marsupials -- 8. Xenarthrans: the strange-joint mammals -- 9. Some ungulate old- timers -- 10. Notoungulates -- 11. Second phase: aliens appear -- 12. Old native rodents -- 13. Primates -- 14. Third phase: the great Amrican interchange -- 15. The grear American interchange: special aspects and analyses -- 16. The newcomers and the living fauna -- 17. This history as experiment and evidence.
0300030940 (pbk.) 0300024347
Mammals
Animals, Fossil.
Mammals--Evolution
Mamíferos
Animales fósiles.
Mamíferos--Evolución
599.038098