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Before the Backbone : Views on the origin of the vertebrates, Hardback Book

Before the Backbone : Views on the origin of the vertebrates Hardback

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We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries.

We would have many a question to ask them if we could - questions never to be solved.

Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone When I started this book in 1991, the subject of vertebrate origins was fusty and unfashionable.

Early drafts for this preface read like an extend­ ed complaint at the lot of traditional morphologists, cast aside by the march of modern molecular biology.

But no longer - this book should reach you at a time of renewed inter­ est in the origin of the vertebrates, our own particular corner of creation.

For although the topic has excited interest for well over a century, molec­ ular biology has only lately achieved the maturity necessary to test its predictions.

As a legitimate field of study, it is fashionable again.

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