Life underground has evolved among different groups of mammals all over the globe. It is an
extraordinary environment-with relatively constant temperature, few opportunities to meet …

Evolutionary theory should ideally specify the necessary and sufficient determinants of the
convergent and divergent patterns that have evolved in subterranean mammals (ie …

Many mammals like to dig in the dirt, but few call it home. Those that do, such as mole-rats,
zokors, and tuco-tucos, have developed novel adaptations to their subterranean life …

The widely recognized convergence of subterranean mammals offers unique opportunities
for the study of patterns, causes and consequences of morphological integration. For …

Across the globe, in all continents but Australia and Antarctica, at least 250 extant rodent
species (38 genera, 6 families–according to the classification applied) spend most of their …

The study of macroevolution continues to offer profound insight into our understanding of the
evolution of biological diversity. This expanded and updated second edition offers a …

The underground environment imposes unique demands on life that have led subterranean
species to evolve specialized traits, many of which evolved convergently. We studied …

The genomic era revolutionized evolutionary biology. The enigma of genotypic-phenotypic
diversity and biodiversity evolution of genes, genomes, phenomes, and biomes, reviewed …

This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become
fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain …

An Introduction to the Invertebrates is a short guide to the invertebrate phyla, looking at their
diverse forms, functions, and evolutionary relationships. This book introduces evolution and …