Vertebrate Dissection - Softcover

Walker, Warren F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 072169098X ISBN 13: 9780721690988

Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company, 1975

Synopsis

Book by Walker, Warren F

About this title

About the Author:

Dominique G. Homberger is a Professor at Louisiana State University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, where she has been teaching for more than 20 years after earning a doctorate from the University of Zûrich, Switzerland and a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Well known for her studies on functional, ecological and evolutionary morphology of birds, Dr. Homberger has published two research monographs, numerous articles and book chapters, and four laboratory manuals. She has organized and edited several symposia on various subjects. She is an editor of Zoomorphology and Zoologischer Anzeiger, and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Biosciences. In recognition of her contributions, she has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists¿ Union, and the Association for Women in Science.

Warren F. Walker, Jr., is Emeritus Professor at Oberlin College, where he taught for 38 years after taking a Harvard doctorate. Well known for his articles on reptile anatomy and locomotion, Dr. Walker is the author of seven laboratory manuals and textbooks published in over 30 editions and in several translations. In addition to being the coauthor of Vertebrate Dissection, Dr. Walker is also coauthor of the Brooks/Cole title FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF THE VERTEBRATES, Third Edition by Liem/Bemis/Walker/Grande.

Review:

"...it is one of the few books on the market that actually incorporates evolution into every chapter, so that dissections and structures have a better framework for students."

About this edition

• Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 072169098X
• ISBN 13: 9780721690988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 397