GAINING GROUND/ THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF TETRAPODS

Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure?emerging from the water a nd 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 editi on of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest