Re: Non-Dino Books

[Jason Anderson <jander3@po-box.mcgill.ca>]

Toby White wrote:
> 
> I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I understand that Carl Zimmer's
> "At the water's edge" may be what you're looking for.  However, I've found
> nothing in the early tetrapod area which really compares with Long's book
> or, more technically, Phillippe Janvier's treatise.  On the technical side,
> there's maybe the series of papers that Boy published in Palaontologische
> Zeit., starting about 10 years ago, but I don't read German so I wouldn't
> know.  I've found some edited collections similar to the Mesozoic Marine
> Reptiles volume.  However, what the field needs is the thematic unity that
> only a one-author book can give.
> 
> [Jenny Clack, Per Ahlberg, Adam Yates & Bob Carroll (apologies to those
> I've forgotten) -- are you listening?]
> 
>   --Toby White

Toby, you're about to be in luck.  Coming this spring is a new volume of
the Evolutionary History of the Amphibians (Heatwolle and Carroll, eds.,
Chipping Norton and Sons, NSW, Australia), including papers by the
above, covering all aspects of non-amniote tetrapod paleontology.  It is
a technical review, but should be as acessable as Janvier.

Jason
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