Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.
Widely praised for its comprehensive coverage and exceptionally clear writing style, this best-selling text explores how the anatomy, physiology, ecology, and behaviour of animals interact to produce organisms that function effectively in their enviroments, and how lineages of organisms change through evolutionary time.
Each chapter includes discussion questions, and suggested answers to the questions are included in the online resources for Instructors
About a dozen literature citations useful for students are provided at the end of each chapter
Taxon-specific conservation issues are discussed in each chapter that treats extant forms
The website includes chapter-by-chapter bibliographies listing all of the sources the authors consulted in preparing the 10th edition
 
About the Author(s)
F. Harvey Pough, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Christine M. Janis, Professor Emerita / Honorary Professor of Earth Sciences, Brown University / University of Bristol
F. Harvey Pough is Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology in the USA. Christine M. Janis is Professor Emerita at Brown University in the USA.
 
Table of Contents
1:Evolution, Diversity, and Classification of Vertebrates
2:What Is a Vertebrate?
3:Jawless Vertebrates and the Origin of Jawed Vertebrates
4:Living in Water
5:Geography and Ecology of the Paleozoic Era
6:Radiation and Diversification of Chondrichthyes
7:Extant Chondrichthyans
8: Radiation and Diversity of Osteichthyes
9: Extant Bony Fishes
10:Origin and Radiation of Tetrapods
11:Extant Amphibians
12:Living on Land
13:Geography and Ecology of the Mesozoic Era
14:Synapsids and Sauropsids
15:Ectothermy: A Low-Energy Approach to Life
16:Turtles
17:Lepidosaurs
18:Crocodylians
19:Mesozoic Diapsids: Dinosaurs and Others
20:Endothermy: A High-Energy Approach to Life
21:The Origin and Radiation of Birds
22:Extant Birds
23:Geography and Ecology of the Cenozoic Era
24:Synapsida and the Evolution of Mammals
25:Extant Mammals
26:Primate Evolution and the Emergence of Humans, by Sergi Lopez-Torres