Dogs
New discoveries of early domestic dogs in Israel and Germany, beginning more than 14 000 years ago, push back their first arrival in the fossil record and provide tantalizing evidence that China, not Europe or the Middle East, was the center of first domestication.
Canids are the most widely spread living carnivores in the world and, in some continents, the dominant predators. Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History captures the excitement of recent advances in understanding the natural history of this family or carnivores and provides an unprecedented visual reference for specialists as well as general readers.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Dogs: Methods of Study and the Place of Dogs in Nature
2. The Origin of Canids and Other Doglike Carnivorous Mammals
3. Diversity: Who Is Who in the Dog Family
4. Anatomy and Function: How the Parts Work
5. Hunting and Social Activity
6. Changing Environments and Canid Evolution
7. Going Places: Braving New Worlds
8. Domestic Dogs
Appendix: Canid Species and Classification
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
Xiaoming Wang is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has been studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae for the past twenty years. In collaboration with Richard H. Tedford, he has published three volumes on the fossil canids of North America.
Richard H. Tedford is curator emeritus in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Mauricio Anton is a paleontological artist based at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid. Among his books are, with Jordi Agusti, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe and, with Alan Turner, The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History and Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna.
| Pm Supplier | Wiley & Sons Ltd |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 0231135297 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9780231135290 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2010-06-18 |
| Pm Width | 178 |
| Pm Height | 14 |
| Pm Author | Wang,Xiaoming, Tedford,Richard H, Antón,Mauricio |
| Pm Longness | 254 |
- Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
- Key Info: colour plates, illustrations
- Author: Wang,Xiaoming, Tedford,Richard H, Antón,Mauricio
- Page Count: 219
- Publication Date: 2010-06-18
Dogs
- Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
- Key Info: colour plates, illustrations
- Author: Wang,Xiaoming, Tedford,Richard H, Antón,Mauricio
- Page Count: 219
- Publication Date: 2010-06-18
