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Presents current advances in our understanding of carnivoran evolution with a cohesive series of cutting-edge studies that utilise new methodologies and new data, while also demonstrating how the mammalian order Carnivora is being used as a model group for addressing fundamental topics in biology and palaeontology.

Presents current advances in our understanding of carnivoran evolution with a cohesive series of cutting-edge studies that utilise new methodologies and new data, while also demonstrating how the mammalian order Carnivora is being used as a model group for addressing fundamental topics in biology and palaeontology.

Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and research involving living and fossil bats, this book explores their evolutionary history from a range of perspectives. Topics covered include paleontology and relationships of bats, the evolution and enhancement of echolocation, feeding ecology, population genetic structure, functional morphology and the fossil history.

Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and research involving living and fossil bats, this book explores their evolutionary history from a range of perspectives. Topics covered include paleontology and relationships of bats, the evolution and enhancement of echolocation, feeding ecology, population genetic structure, functional morphology and the fossil history.

Featuring contributions from leading researchers, this volume provides perspectives on how molecular biology can inform paleontology, directly and indirectly, to better understand life's past. Paleobiological questions such as genome size, digit homologies, genetic control cascades behind phenotype, estimates of vertebrate divergence dates, and rates of morphological evolution are addressed.

Featuring contributions from leaders in the field, this volume provides the evolutionary context necessary to interpret patterns and processes in the age of mouse genomics. It is a valuable resource for researchers of house mouse biology and those interested in mouse genetics, evolutionary biology, biomedicine, behavioural sciences, parasitology and archaeozoology.

Featuring contributions from leading researchers, this volume provides perspectives on how molecular biology can inform paleontology, directly and indirectly, to better understand life's past. Paleobiological questions such as genome size, digit homologies, genetic control cascades behind phenotype, estimates of vertebrate divergence dates, and rates of morphological evolution are addressed.

This book brings together the latest research on rodents to better understand the evolution of both living and extinct members of this fascinating group. Highlighting interdisciplinary links across palaeontology, developmental biology, functional morphology, phylogenetics and biomechanics, it is a valuable resource for evolutionary biologists in all fields.

An in-depth study of chromosomal variation, which is an important mechanism in speciation, in a single mammalian species (the common shrew) that has more such variation than any other. This book will be of interest to researchers studying speciation as it describes an extraordinary and unique 'model system'.