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The Rise of Marine Mammals

Name: The Rise of Marine Mammals
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421423258
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421423258

50 Million Years of Evolution

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By Annalisa Berta, Illustrated by James L. Sumich
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 216

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Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched seals and dolphins on the walls of Paleolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors to track these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from highly respected marine mammal paleontologist Annalisa Berta delves into the story of the extraordinary adaptations that gave the world these amazing animals. The Rise of Marine Mammals reveals remarkable fossil record discoveries that shed light on the origins, relationships, and diversification of marine mammals.

Focusing on evolution and paleobiology, Berta provides an overview of marine mammal species diversity, enhanced with gorgeous life restorations by Carl Buell, Robert Boessenecker, William Stout, and Ray Troll and extensive line drawings by graphics editor James L. Sumich. The book also considers ongoing conservation challenges, demonstrating how the fossil record of adaptation in response to past environmental shifts may illuminate the way that marine mammals respond to global climate change. This invaluable biological framework is essential for helping us understand how best to protect and conserve today's polar bears, whales, dolphins, seals, and fellow warm-blooded ocean dwellers.

The Rise of Marine Mammals also describes exciting breakthroughs that rely on new techniques of study, including 3-D imaging, and molecular, finite element, and morphometric analyses, which have enhanced scientists' understanding of everything from the anatomy of fetal whales to the genes behind limb loss in cetaceans. Mammalogists, paleontologists, and marine scientists will find Berta's insights absorbing, while developmental and molecular biologists, geneticists, and ecologists exploring integrative research approaches will benefit from her fresh perspective.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Setting the Stage
2. The Oldest Marine Mammals
3. Later- Diverging Whales
4. Aquatic Carnivorans
5. Crown Sirenians and Their Desmostylian Relatives
6. Aquatic Sloths and Recent Occupants of the Sea, Sea Otters and Polar Bears
7. Diversity Changes through Time
Classification of Fossil Marine Mammals
Glossary
References
Index

""The Rise of Marine Mammals covers the breadth of marine mammal evolution while highlighting the key details. It discusses what we can learn from the fossils within a context that makes the reader feel as if he or she is part of making these discoveries... This visually stunning, yet informative, book should serve to inspire its readers'not only to give them a sense of awe and wonder at the marvelous diversity of marine mammals in eons gone by, but also to push them to preserve and steward the remarkable creatures that live in our seas today.""

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