Organismic animal biology : an evolutionary approach / Ariel Chipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chipman, Ariel D., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology.

Animal diversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2024

Summary:

This accessible textbook provides a basic understanding of the general evolutionary principles of organismic animal biology and animal diversity. It integrates parallel themes of body organization and phylogeny to provide an evolutionary journey through the diversity of animal life.

Contents:

About this book 1 The hierarchical nature of biology 2 Species concepts and speciation Box 2.1 Examples that defy classification 3 What is an organism? The simplest organisms 4 The concept of evolutionary change Box 4.1 Tree thinking 5 Multicellularity Box 5.1 Choanoflagellates 6 Porifera: The simplest multicellular organisms Box 6.1 Placozoa 7 Germ layers: Inside and out 8 Motility and symmetry 9 Diploblastic organisms: Cnidaria and Ctenophora Box 9.1 The debate over the earliest branching animals 10 Colonial organisms and complex life cycles 11 An introduction to Bilateria Box 11.1 The origin of animal axes Box 11.2 Xenacoelomorpha as a proxy for the earliest bilaterian 12 Sensory systems Box 12.1 The Cambrian Explosion 13 Platyhelminthes Box 13.1 Gnathifera 14 Parasitism Box 14.1 Major human parasites 15 Mollusca 16 Skeletons and coeloms Box 16.1 Old phylogenies, new phylogenies 17 Annelida Box 17.1 More spiralian phyla 18 Segmental organization of the body 19 Size and complexity Box 19.1 The Ordovician Biodiversification Event 20 Molting animals Box 20.1 Scalidophora 21 Arthropoda I: General introduction and Chelicerata Box 21.1 Panarthropoda 22 Terrestrialization Box 22.1 Plant terrestrialization 23 Arthropoda II: Mandibulata Box 23.1 The arthropod head 24 Transport and gas exchange systems 25 Embryogenesis 26 Echinodermata Box 26.1 The end-Permian mass extinction 27 Chordata and Hemichordata 28 Excretory systems 29 Vertebrate characteristics 30 Vertebrate diversity Box 30.1 The end Cretaceous mass extinction 31 Vertebrate organogenesis 32 Organismic biology in the twenty-first century Box 32.1 The ``big five' model organisms

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information supplied online (viewed on February 22, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-191489-4