Comments on: Book review – Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates/2018/12/13/book-review-across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:32:58 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Earth: A Biography of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/13/book-review-across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates/comment-page-1/#comment-50313Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:31:13 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2572#comment-50313[…] notochord (the precursor of the backbone), she discusses Myllokunmingia found in China rather than the usual example of Pikaia. And as an example of the water-to-land transition of vertebrates, she includes Acanthostega rather […]

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]]>By: Book review – A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/13/book-review-across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates/comment-page-1/#comment-33973Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:44:26 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2572#comment-33973[…] weirdos of the Cambrian explosion look normal in comparison. Gee is similarly knowledgeable about the rise of the backbone and introduces you to vetulicolians and yunnanozoans, one of which, Cathaymyrus, “looked like […]

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]]>By: Book review – Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/13/book-review-across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates/comment-page-1/#comment-8631Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:59:14 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2572#comment-8631[…] traits during sea squirt development. I came across this before when reviewing the rather technical Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates, where Henry Gee mentions it almost off-handedly on page 167: “Paedomorphosis produced the […]

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]]>By: Book review – Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/13/book-review-across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates/comment-page-1/#comment-3724Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:54:48 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2572#comment-3724[…] Switek starts off with a potted evolutionary history of the skeleton, taking the reader all the way back to the Cambrian, some 455 million years ago. The small fossils of Pikaia gracilens are some of the earliest evidence we have of the starting point of skeletal evolution. Looking for all the world like a small worm, it was one of the first creatures to possess a notochord, a cartilage-like structure that is the precursor of the backbone. (For a more technical exposé of that borderline between vertebrates and invertebrates, see my review of Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates.) […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Art of Animal Anatomy: All Life is Here, Dissected and Depicted | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/13/book-review-across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates/comment-page-1/#comment-1928Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:27:11 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2572#comment-1928[…] and process, not least because of the impact of the theory of natural selection. In his book Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates, Henry Gee pointed out how evolution and embryology became intertwined as disciplines, which is […]

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