Living Fossils -

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Sommaire:
Living Fossils: Introduction to the Casebook.- 1. Evolutionary Stasis in the Elephant-Shrew, Rhynchocyon.- 2. The Tree Squirrel Sciurus (Sciuridae, Rodentia) as a Living Fossil.- 3. The Tree-Shrew, Tupaia: A Living Model of the Ancestral Primate?.- 4. What is a Tarsier?.- 5. Are There Any Anthropoid Primate Living Fossils?.- 6. Evolutionary Pattern and Process in the Sister-Group Alcelaphini-Aepycerotini (Mammalia: Bovidae.- 7. Tapirs as Living Fossils.- 8. Tragulids as Living Fossils.- 9. Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the Study of Evolutionary Rates, with Some Comments on Bradytely in Birds.- 10. Crocodilians as Living Fossils.- 11. Family Chanidae and Other Teleostean Fishes as Living Fossils.- 12. Denticeps clupeoides Clausen (1959): The Static Clupeomorph.- 13. Polypterus and Erpetoichthys: Anachronistic Osteichthyans.- 14. Sturgeons as Living Fossils.- 15. The Neopterygian Amia as a Living Fossil.- 16. Family Lepisosteidae (Gars) as Living Fossils.- 17. The Coelacanth as a Living Fossil.- 18. Notidanus.- 19. Cephalocarida: Living Fossil Without a Fossil Record.- 20. Leptostraca as Living Fossils.- 21. Anaspidid Syncarida.- 22. The Xiphosurida: Archetypes of Bradytely?.- 23. Peripatus as a Living Fossil.- 24. Neopilina, Neomphalus and Neritopsis, Living Fossil Molluses.- 25. Pleurotomaria: Pedigreed Perseverance?.- 26. The Giant Creeper, Campanile symbolicum Iredale, an Australian Relict Marine Snail.- 27. Diastoma melanioides (Reeve), a Relict Snail from South Australia.- 28. The Relict Cerithiid Prosobranch, Gourmya gourmyi (Crosse).- 29. Neotrigonia, the Sole Surviving Genus of the Trigoniidae (Bivalvia, Mollusca).- 30. Is Nautilus a Living Fossil?.- 31. The Bryozoan Nellia tenella as a Living Fossil.- 32. The Cretaceous Coral Heliopora(Octocorallia, Coenothecalia)-a Common Indo-Pacific Reef Builder.- 33. Simpson's Inverse: Bradytely and the Phenomenon of Living Fossils.- 34. Does Bradytely Exist?.