Anatomy of Comparative Vertebrates/Libbie Henrietta Hyman.
Reprint.
Delhi, Satish Serial Publishing, 2004, xx, 544 p., figs., ISBN 81-902289-2-7.
Anatomy of Comparative Vertebrates/Libbie Henrietta Hyman.
Reprint.
Delhi, Satish Serial Publishing, 2004, xx, 544 p., figs., ISBN 81-902289-2-7.
Contents: 1. General considerations on animal form. 2. The phylum chordata. 3. Essential features of lower types. 4. External anatomy and adaptive radiation in Gnathostomes. 5. General features of chordate development. 6. The comparative anatomy of the skin and the exoskeleton. 7. The endoskeleton: the comparative anatomy of the vertebral column and ribs. 8. The endoskeleton: the comparative anatomy of the Girdles, the sternum, and the paired appendages. 9. The endoskeleton: the comparative anatomy of the skull and the visceral skeleton. 10. The comparative anatomy of the muscular system. 11. The comparative anatomy of the Coelom and of the digestive and respiratory systems. 12. The comparative anatomy of the circulatory system. 13. The comparative anatomy of the Urogenital System. 14. The comparative anatomy of the nervous system and the sense organs. Appendices. Index.
"In this second enlarged and expanded edition the author has attempted not only to give the laboratory directions for the dissection of the various systems, but also presented in connection with each system a very brief, generalized, and simplified account of the present revision is based wholly on the study of original literature and advanced treatises. In place of the impression of a static subject wherein everything has been worked out, gained from the usual textbooks, it aims to give the student a picture of a vast field full of controversial issues and unsolved problems, depending for their solution on future painstaking embryological and anatomical researches.
This book tries to teach comparative vertebrate anatomy by means of real specimens, and it is to be hoped that ample material will be available during the laboratory study. This work is indispensable to the student of comparative vertebrate anatomy and must serve as a guide in beginning the study of any system. It is a bottomless source of information on any facts one might want to know, although less satisfactory, perhaps, in giving connected account of the evolution of the system." (jacket)