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Dogs : their fossil relatives and evolutionary history

"Xiaoming Wang has spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae, and Richard H. Tedford is well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their research with Mauricio Anton's impeccable reconstructions of both extinct and extant species, Wang and Tedford present a remarkably detailed and nuanced portrait of the origin and evolution of canids over the past 40 million years. The authors cull their history from the most recent scientific research conducted in the vast collections of the American Museum of Natural History and other leading institutions."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2008
viii, 219 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
9780231135283, 9780231509435, 0231135289, 023150943X
185095648
Methods of study and the place of dogs in nature
The origin of canids and other doglike carnivorous mammals
Diversity: who is who in the dog family
Anatomy and function: how the parts work
Hunting and social activity
Changing environments and canid evolution
Going places: braving new worlds
Domestic dogs