1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000023251

Titolo

Gli italiani nei campi di concentramento in Francia : documenti e testimonianze / a cura del Ministero della cultura popolare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Società editrice del libro italiano, 1940

Descrizione fisica

453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Disciplina

940.5318092

Soggetti

Internati politici italiani - Francia - 1940 - Documenti

Campi di concentramento francesi - Guerra mondiali - 1939-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462404103321

Autore

Clack Jennifer A. <1937->

Titolo

Gaining ground [[electronic resource] ] : the origin and evolution of tetrapods / / Jennifer A. Clack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-280-77261-1

9786613683380

0-253-00537-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (559 p.)

Collana

Life of the past

Disciplina

566

Soggetti

Amphibians, Fossil

Leg - Evolution

Lungfishes, Fossil

Paleontology - Carboniferous

Paleontology - Devonian

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Origin of Tetrapods -- Skulls and Skeletons in Transition -- Relationships and Relatives : The Lobe-Fin Family -- Setting the Scene : The Devonian World -- The First Feet : Tetrapods of the Famennian -- From Fins to Feet : Transformation and Transition -- Emerging into the Carboniferous : The First Phase -- East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree -- The Late Carboniferous : Expanding Horizons -- Gaining Ground : The Evolution of Terrestriality.

Sommario/riassunto

Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure-emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, C