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Integrated principles of zoology

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I ntegrated Principles of Zoology is a college text designed for an introductory course in zoology. This fourteenth edition, as with previous editions, describes the diversity of animal life and the fascinating adaptations that enable animals to inhabit so many ecological niches.

We retain in this revision the basic organization of the thirteenth edition and its distinctive features, especially emphasis on the principles of evolution and zoological science. Also retained are several pedagogical features that have made previous editions easily accessible to students: opening chapter dialogues
drawn from the chapter’s theme; chapter summaries and review questions to aid student comprehension and study; concise and visually appealing illustrations; in-text derivations of generic names; chapter notes and essays that enhance the text by offering interesting sidelights to the narrative; literature citations; and an extensive glossary providing pronunciation, derivation, and defi nition of terms used in the text.

The authors welcome to the fourteenth edition Susan Keen, who supervised this revision. Many improvements are the direct result of Susan’s new perspectives and those of many zoology instructors who submitted reviews of the thirteenth edition. We revised all chapters to streamline the writing and to incorporate new discoveries
and literature citations. Our largest formal revision is to include a cladogram of animal phyla on the inside front cover of the book, and to reorder chapter contents in Part Three (Diversity of Animal Life) to match the arrangement of phyla on the cladogram. Each chapter in Part Three begins with a small image of the zoological cladogram highlighting the phylum or phyla covered in the chapter, followed by an expanded cladogram of the contents of each major phylum. We place stronger emphasis on phylogenetic perspectives throughout the book. Material formerly presented separately as “biological contributions” and “characteristics” of phyla is consolidated in a boxed list of phylum “characteristics” for each chapter in Part Three. New photographs are added to illustrate animal diversity in many phyla.

Material new to the fourteenth edition expands and updates our coverage of eight major principles: (1) scientifi c process and the role of theory, (2) cellular systems and metabolism, (3) endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic origins, (4) physiological and ecological systems, (5) populational processes and conservation, (6) evolutionary developmental biology, (7) phylogenetic tests of morphological homologies, and (8) taxonomy. Exciting new fossil discoveries and molecular phylogenies contribute important changes to the last three principles. The primary changes to each major principle are summarized here with references to the relevant chapters.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Penerbit

New York : McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.., 2008

Deskripsi Fisik

QL47.2.H54; 590–dc22

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978–0–07–297004–3

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Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

14th ed.

Subjek

ZOOLOGY

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