By Xiaoming/ Tedford, Richard H./ Anton, Mauricio (ILT) Wang
Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the previous two decades learning the evolutionary historical past of the relatives Canidae. either are popular for having demonstrated the fashionable framework for the evolutionary courting of canids. Combining their examine with Mauricio Antón's impeccable reconstructions of either extinct and extant species, Wang and Tedford current a remarkably targeted and nuanced portrait of the foundation and evolution of canids over the last forty million years.
The authors cull their heritage from the latest clinical learn performed at the immense collections of the yankee Museum of ordinary historical past and different best associations. The fossil checklist of the Canidae, quite these from their beginning position in North the USA, are the most powerful in their style between recognized teams of carnivorans. one of these splendidly special evolutionary background presents entry to a typical background that isn't attainable with many different teams of carnivorans.
With their wealthy fossil checklist, various diversifications to varied environments, and assorted predatory specializations, canids are a fantastic version organism for the mapping of predator habit and morphological specializations. additionally they supply a good distinction to felids, which stay entrenched in severe predatory specializations. The cutting edge illustrated procedure during this publication is the precise accompaniment to a very very important department of animal and fossil learn. It transforms the technology of paleontology right into a exciting visible adventure and offers an exceptional reference for an individual fascinated about dogs.
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Borophagines The subfamily Borophaginae is named after the genus Borophagus, a terminal group of large canids that developed strong bone-crushing dentitions. ” However, many borophagines were not bone crushers. The borophagines first appeared about 32 Ma and declined to extinction about 2 Ma, spanning the middle Oligocene to the Pliocene. During the 30 million years of their existence, they were confined to the North American continent. In the history of the canids, the borophagines are the most diverse, occupying the widest ecological niches—ranging from the hypercarnivorous, supersize Epicyon and Borophagus to such hypocarnivorous, small- to medium-size omnivores as Cynarctoides, Phlaocyon, and Cynarctus.
Paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-50943-5 (e-book) 1. Dogs. 2. Canis, Fossil. 3. Dogs—Evolution. I. Tedford, Richard H. II. Antón, Mauricio. III. Title. 77’2—DC22 2007052328 A Columbia University Press E-book. edu. BOOK DESIGN by VIN DANG + JACKET DESIGN by MARTIN HINZE CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 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 1: Canid Species and Classification APPENDIX 2: Phylogenetic Tree of the Family Canidae GLOSSARY FURTHER READING INDEX PREFACE THE LONG ASSOCIATION OF HUMANS and the domestic dog has attracted considerable interest in the biology and natural history of the Canidae (dog family), among both specialists and the general public.
Because species are the smallest units usually dealt with, the nature of these units needed definition. At midcentury, with the acceptance of genetic and morphological bases for definition, a species was regarded either as a biological species (a group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups [Mayr 1940]) or as a morphological species (a group of individuals or populations with the same or similar morphological characters).