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A Manual of the Mammalia : An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals" by Douglas A Kelt; James L Patton; Bill Stone, (Photographer); Fiona Reid; Timothy E Lawlor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor’s acclaimed identification guide the __Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals__. Integrating the latest advances in research, Douglas A. Kelt and James L. Patton provide this long-overdue update in their new, wholly original work, __A Manual of the Mammalia__. Complemented by global range maps, high-resolution photographs of skulls and mandibles by Bill Stone, and the outstanding artwork of Fiona Reid, this book provides an overview of biological attributes of each higher taxon while highlighting key and diagnostic characters needed to identify skulls and skins of all recent mammalian orders and most families. Kelt and Patton also place taxa in their currently understood supra-familial clades, and discuss current challenges in higher mammal taxonomy. Including a comprehensive review of mammalian anatomy to provide a foundation for understanding all characters employed throughout, __A Manual of the Mammalia__ is both a user-friendly handbook for students learning to identify higher mammal taxa and a uniquely comprehens
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- Author
- Douglas A Kelt; James L Patton; Bill Stone, (Photographer); Fiona Reid; Timothy E Lawlor
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226533001
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Nature, Animals
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