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The figures will greatly enhance student understanding with well-chosen and interesting examples.\u0026gt;\" -Claire Kendal-Wright, Chaminade University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xv Chapter 1 Diversity, Classification, and Evolution of Vertebrates  1.1 The Vertebrate Story --Binominal nomenclature --Extant vertebrate groups  1.2 Phylogenetic Systematics  1.3 Applying Phylogenetic Criteria --Evaluating possible phylogenies --Molecules and morphology --The problem of dating --Dagger (DR) convention adopted in this book  1.4 Using Phylogenetic Trees --Extant phylogenetic brackets --Paraphyly --Crown and stem groups 1.5 Genetic Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change --Phenotypes and fitness --Developmental regulatory genes  1.6 Epigenetic Effects  1.7 Earth History and Vertebrate Evolution Chapter 2 What Is a Vertebrate??  2.1 Vertebrates in Relation to Other Animals?  2.2 Characteristics of Chordates? --Chordate origins and evolution? --Extant nonvertebrate chordates?  2.3 What Distinguishes a Vertebrate??  2.4 Vertebrate Embryonic Development? --Development of the body? --Development of the pharyngeal region? --Development of the brain? --Other neurogenic tissues of vertebrates?  2.5 Vertebrate Tissues? --Adult tissue types --Mineralized tissues  2.6 Vertebrate Organ Systems --Integumentary system --Skeletal system --Muscular system --Nervous system and sense organs --Endocrine system --Respiratory system --Circulatory system --Digestive system --Excretory and reproductive systems Chapter 3 Jawless Vertebrates and the Origin of Gnathostomes  3.1 Earliest Evidence of Vertebrates --Enigmas: DRConodonts and DRTullimonstrum ---Early mineralized tissues --Environment of early vertebrate evolution  3.2 Cyclostomes: Extant Jawless Vertebrate --Characters of cyclostomes --Hagfishes: Myxiniformes --Lampreys: Petromyzontiformes  3.3 Jawless Osteognathostomes  3.4 Gnathostome Body Plan --Gnathostome skeletons --What about soft anatomical features?  3.5 Origin of Jaws --Hypotheses of jaw origins --Importance of the nose --Selective value of jaws  3.6 Origin of Paired Appendages --Fin development and the lateral somitic frontier --Advantages of fins  3.7 Extinct Paleozoic Jawed Fishes Chapter 4 Living in Water  4.1 Aquatic Environment --Obtaining oxygen from water using gill --Obtaining oxygen from air using lungs and other respiratory structure --Adjusting buoyancy  4.2 Sensory World of Aquatic Vertebrates --Vision --Chemosensation: Olfaction and taste --Detecting water displacement --Hearing and equilibrium --Electroreception and electrogenesis  4.3 Maintaining an Internal Environment --Nitrogenous wastes and kidney --Osmoregulation --Regulation of ions and body fluids  4.4 Osmoregulation in Different Environments --Marine cartilaginous fishes and coelacanths --Marine teleosts --Freshwater teleosts and lissamphibians --Euryhaline vertebrates Chapter 5 Geography and Ecology of the Paleozoic  5.1 Deep Time --The Precambrian world --The Paleozoic  5.2 Continental Geography --Continental drift and plate tectonics --Shifting continents of the Paleozoic --Shifting continents and changing climates  5.3 Paleozoic Climates  5.4 Paleozoic Ecosystems --Aquatic life --Terrestrial flora --Terrestrial fauna  5.5 Extinctions Chapter 6 Origin and Radiation of Chondrichthyans  6.1 Acanthodii  6.2 Chondrichthyes --Habitats and diversity --Placoid scales --Cartilaginous skeleton --Teeth and tooth plates --Jaws and jaw suspension --Internal fertilization and claspers --Distinctive soft tissue and physiological features  6.3 Euchondrocephali and Chimaeriformes --Biology of extant Chimaeriformes  6.4 Elasmobranchii, Euselachii, and Neoselachii --Selachii: Sharks --Batomorphi: Skates and rays  6.5 Biology of Neoselachii --Feeding --Bioluminescence and biofluorescence ---Hypoxia and the epaulette shark --Endothermal heterothermy --Swimming --Reproduction --Elasmobranch brains --Social networks and migration in sand tiger sharks  6.6 Declining Elasmobranch Populations --Conservation and sawfishes --Threats to chondrichthyans --Vulnerabilities of chondrichthyans --Ecological impacts of shark population declines --Policies to protect sharks Chapter 7 Origin of Osteichthyes and Radiation of Actinopterygian  7.1 Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, and Sarcopterygi --Osteichthyan character --Fin adaptations --Other differences between actinopterygians and sarcopterygians  7.2 Actinopterygii: Basal Group --Polypteriformes --Acipenseriformes --Neopterygii: Holostei --Neopterygii: Teleoste  7.3 Characters of Teleostei  7.4 Teleostei: Basal Groups --Elopomorpha --Osteoglossomorpha --Otocephala --Basal euteleosts  7.5 Teleostei: Acanthopterygii --Basal acanthopterygians --Percomorph  7.6 Swimming and Hydrodynamics --Generating forward thrust --Modes of locomotion --Speed and drag --Steering, stopping, and staying in place  7.7 Reproduction and Development --Oviparity --Viviparity --Sex change in teleosts  7.8 Ecology of Marine Teleosts --Black-water diving and larval teleosts --The photic zone and its subdivisions --Coral reef fishes --Pelagic and deep-sea fishes Chapter 8 Sarcopterygians and the Origin of Tetrapods  8.1 Phylogenetic Concepts of Tetrapoda and Characters for Sarcopterygii  8.2 The Miguasha Lagerstätte and the","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732650504535,"sku":"9780197558621","price":146.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197558621.jpg?v=1719997802"},{"product_id":"birds-in-the-ancient-world-9780198853114","title":"Birds in the Ancient World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature and art. They also provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in their myths and folklore, and were central to the ancient rituals of augury and divination. Jeremy Mynott''s Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words brings together all this rich and fascinating material for the modern reader.Using quotations from well over a hundred classical Greek and Roman authors, all of them translated freshly into English, and nearly a hundred illustrations from ancient wall-paintings, pottery, and mosaics, Birds in the Ancient World illustrates the many different roles birds played in popular culture: as indicators of time, weather, and the seasons; as a resource for hunting, eating, medicine, and farming; as domestic pets and entertainments; and as omens and intermediaries between the gods and humankind. There are also selections from early scientific writings about birds, as well as many anecdotes and descriptions from works of history, geography, and travel.Jeremy Mynott acts as a stimulating guide to this varied material, using birds as a prism through which to explore both the similarities and the often surprising differences between ancient conceptions of the natural world and our own. His book is an original contribution to the flourishing interest in the cultural history of birds and to our understanding of the ancient cultures in which birds played such a prominent part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Mynott's Birds in the Ancient World is an absolute joy, beautifully written and gloriously illustrated. * Peter Thonemann, Books of the Year 2018, The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e[A] superb book ... Mynott quotes [...] 120 authors in total, some translated into English for the first time. All the translations are Mynott's own. The period covered is approximately 700 BC to AD 300 and, since Mynott's approach is thematic, each chapter ranges pretty freely across those thousand years. It is, without doubt, a major achievement and a brilliantly sustained exercise in what Mynott [...] calls 'thinking with birds' ... We are fortunate to have in Mynott, who is both an ornithologist and a classicist, the perfect guide for such explorations. * Mathew Lyons, History Today *\u003cbr\u003eAn astonishing combination of knowledge and sheer readability ... a copiously and richly illustrated review ... I think we should be grateful to Jeremy Mynott for this wonderful book, which both illuminates that understanding and broadens our knowledge. * Roger Riddington, British Birds *\u003cbr\u003e[A] stunning new book ... reading this splendid study, I experienced some of the excitement that humanists must have felt at entering into a lost world ... Beautifully produced, informed by wonderful scholarship, Birds in the Ancient World embodies the Renaissance spirit, as a model of humane and civilised learning. * Mike McCarthy, Resurgence \u0026amp; Ecologist Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eIt is [...] thought-provoking, highly readable and exhaustive. Mynott has made an enormous effort to trawl the whole of the classics for bird references. The materials unearthed are far greater than anything previously considered and an appendix supplying potted biographies of the Greek and Roman authors discussed in the book includes more than 100 names ... Perhaps the pre-eminent achievement of the book is not its fastidious examination of classical birds, but the way it pans backwards from the avian minutiae to give us a much broader vision of the two great civilisations. * Mark Cocker, The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eThis scholarly, yet readable and fascinating book presents a detailed account of how our current obsession with birds began ... beautifully produced volume, illustrated throughout with striking colour images ... Mynott's book brings to life the variety of ancient scholars and artists who were inspired by birds. The sheer volume of material must, one feels, have been daunting, yet Mynott has processed it in a sensitive and logical fashion ... this definitive and original account of birds in the ancient world will serve as an invaluable reference for all subsequent historians of ornithology, and indeed, zoology as a whole. * Tim Birkhead, Archives of National History *\u003cbr\u003eA book the world has been waiting for, rich, scrupulously organised, imaginative, beautifully written, and driven by a double passion. On the one hand, for birds and human interactions with them. On the other, for the ancient world, especially those Greeks who 'invented the concept of nature' and the scholarship which brings their thoughts and observations alive. * Ruth Padel, author of Darwin - A Life in Poems, The Mara Crossing, and In and Out of the Mind *\u003cbr\u003e[An] excellent new book. * Robin Lane Fox, The Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA distinguished publisher and writer on both classics and bird-watching, Mynott has scoured thousands of pages on a literary nature trail... * Peter Stothard, The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eWith a glorious array of references, vivid images, and his own astute philosophical commentary, Mynott deftly brings all this into sharp focus: are all these ancient associations, uses and abuses really so different from the way we see birds? * Philip Hoare, New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eMynott organises his elegant and thought-provoking book by theme and deploys a comprehensive range of quotes from throughout the classical period ... His approach is nuanced and open-minded, and he writes with a light, often wry touch ... The book is full of delightful titbits. * Philip Womak, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Mynott's masterful cultural and scientific history tours their [birds] roles as timepieces, soundscapes, pets, messaging services even intermediaries with the supernatural. The vivid artworks and literary passages give this wings... * Barbara Kiser, Nature *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most beautiful, most engaging and simply most delightful books I have read in a long time ... Mynott has offered a masterclass in writing a work that popularizes Classics and explains the discipline's relevant authority, clearly and memorably to outsiders ... Among many splendid features of this volume, I wish to highlight its illustrations ... this is a splendidly learned and superbly interesting account of the manifold ways in which birds and humans interacted in antiquity, but it is more than that: this is a book which incites one to ponder upon fundamental ecological and environmental issues and to re-examine our own relationship to the natural world. * Andrej Petrovic, Greece \u0026amp; Rome *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderfully readable book, scholarly but fully accessible, continually thoughtful, properly sceptical, often amusing, and culled from knowledge of ancient literature that must be second to none ... It is nicely illustrated in full colour. Whether you read the book straight through, or in a series of dips, it is full of revelation and insight into the ancient mind-set, which was once familiar and strange ... Thanks to Jeremy Mynott, the birds of the ancient world have taken flight, and we can go birding in that magical lost world. * Peter Marren, British Wildlife *\u003cbr\u003eFor Dr Mynott, 'the significance of birds' is his binding theme in this illustrated cultural history with liberal quotations from some of humanity's greatest literature at this formative period of Western history. * John McEwen, Country Life *\u003cbr\u003e... provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of the role of birds within ancient society. The book is distinct from previous scholarship on birds in the ancient world with its approach to the material ... Mynott's style will no doubt engage non-Classicists, particularly ornithologists and bird-watchers, through his intelligent use of modern comparisons and presentations of extracts of ancient texts. However, I also believe his book could work as a set-text for undergraduate students, particularly for modules that discuss the interaction between ancient societies and the natural world. * Ben Greet, The Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Mynott's new book is by far the most erudite book on birds I have ever read. It is a compelling combination of the history of birds and the ancient world that throws both into new relief ... this original guide comes highly recommended. * Alexandra Henton, The Field *\u003cbr\u003eBirds in the Ancient World is a welcome and important resource for the scholar working on any aspect of birds in all spheres of medieval life ... Mynott's erudite discussions, though, will make an excellent companion for those wishing to explore the classical legacy in medieval 'nature' paradigms. * Michael Warren, Medium Aevum *\u003cbr\u003eThis publication can be considered an essential sourcebook for those who want to delve deeper into how birds were appreciated by the Greeks and Romans. * Antiqvvs *\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when we need to be listening to the messages from birds from declining puffins losing their sand eels from warming seas, to Mediterranean Great White Egrets now breeding each year in Somerset this book offers brilliant insights into an earlier human culture's intimate relationship with another species. * Terry Glifford, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism *\u003cbr\u003eThe history lover inside me drew me to this title but I was pleased to find my ecologist's curiosity satisfied many times whilst reading this book ... From the earliest images and writings that birds can be identified from, you will find yourself amazed at what can be discovered from sources well over 1000 years old that can be linked with present day species and their distributions. It is such a richly detailed book that you might not be able to read it from start to finish in one go, but the chaptering allows you to dip in and out and discover something new each time you pick it up. * Katharine Bowgen, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) *\u003cbr\u003eIt is evident that Mynott has conducted a lot of thorough research and his book is absolutely brimming with detail ... his writing style is clear and engaging ... For anyone with a fascination for the ancient world or birds, this is definitely worth a read. * All About History *\u003cbr\u003e[A] fascinating book ... Mynott comprehensively demonstrates that birds were seen and heard in abundance across his chosen thousand year timespan. * Deborah Hyde, Walk magazine *\u003cbr\u003eInformative and expertly narrated, Birds in the Ancient World is an enthralling look at the cultural history of birds and the huge influence they had on a bygone age. * Simone Brookes, Discover Animals *\u003cbr\u003eClassical literature is a rich source of bird-related forteana, as this superb study reveals ... a delightfully easy read, thanks to Mynott's stylistic panache: fluent, quasi-Herodotean, jargon-free, consistently witty ... Not many writers can claim to have the last word on their subject. Mynott though, is that - have to say it - rare bird ... For naturalists, scientists, social historians, twitchers, this superlative study will surely fly... * Barry Baldwin, The Fortean Times *\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully produced volume, with full-colour illustrations, acknowledgements, a bird index and a general index, a very full bibliography, detailed references, footnotes and lists of the bird species found in the sources. These academic accoutrements only add a flourish, though, to the approachable and enjoyable nature of the actual read. * Liz Dexter, Shiny New Books *\u003cbr\u003eMynott provides a detailed picture of ancient understandings of birds-whether as food source or literary symbol - in the context of the literary passages and the social order of the time ... He includes a time line of ancient writers and historical events as well as a biographies section, which summarizes the contributions of various ancient authors in documenting birds. 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