TY - BOOK ID - 74594014 TI - Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods PY - 2011 SN - 9780253356758 9780253005373 025300537X 025335675X 1280772611 9786613683380 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Lungfishes, Fossil. KW - Amphibians, Fossil. KW - Leg KW - Paleontology KW - Evolution. KW - Amphibians, Fossil KW - Lungfishes, Fossil KW - Devonian Period KW - Carboniferous Periods KW - Osteichthyes, Fossil KW - Extremities, Lower KW - Extremity, Lower KW - Legs KW - Limb, Lower KW - Limb, Pelvic KW - Lower extremities KW - Lower extremity KW - Lower limb KW - Lower limbs KW - Pelvic limb KW - Pelvic limbs KW - Extremities (Anatomy) KW - Vertebrates, Fossil KW - Evolution UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74594014 AB - 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 ER -