Description
Invertebrates, 4th Edition, is a complete, trusted, and engaging textbook whose comprehensive coverage makes it an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses and professional researchers. The third edition has been widely praised for its detailed classifications, high-quality illustrations, and coverage of contemporary debates in the field. The fourth edition continues to feature recent scholarship and current perspectives while streamlining the text to improve accessibility for intro-level students. Gonzalo Giribet joins as coauthor, contributing his phylogenomic expertise as an Evolutionary Biologist and Phylogeneticist and Director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Key features include: -An abundance of new figures and photos, including detailed anatomical diagrams that are suitable for lab courses; – completely up to date with the latest developments in the field of invertebrate biology, including most recent work in genomics, molecular phylogenetics, and evo-devo along with an up-to-date description of modern phylogenetic systematics in Chapter 2; – the authors have included diagrams that will be useful to students in the laboratory, including for animal dissections; – and new summary boxes appear at the end of each chapter. 1,104 p.
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- Richard C. Brusca. PhD; Executive Director Emeritus of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ (USA); and Research Scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA).
- Gonzalo Giribet. PhD; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Curator of Invertebrates, and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, University of Harvard, Cambridge, MA (USA); and a Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
- Wendy Moore. PhD; Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA); and Curator of the University of Arizona Insect Collection.
- Publication date (digital version): 2022-08 – Sinauer Associates (imprint of Oxford University Press).
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