A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals" by Kelt, Douglas A.

A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals" (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226533001)

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A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals" by Kelt, Douglas A.

A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

$64.00
A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals" by Kelt, Douglas A.

A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

$64.00
Format: Hardcover
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The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been 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 comprehensive, up-to-date reference for mammalogists and mammal-lovers from across the globe.

Author: Douglas A. Kelt, James L. Patton
ISBN-10: 022653300X
ISBN-13: 9780226533001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2019
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.50w x 1.30d

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Choice 05/01/2021
By Douglas A. Kelt
By Douglas A. Kelt
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Douglas A. Kelt is professor of wildlife ecology at the University of California, Davis, and president of the American Society of Mammalogists.He lives in Woodland, CA. James L. Patton is professor emeritus of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, and a past president of the American Society of Mammalogists. He is coeditor most recently of Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Kensington, CA.

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