Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford

Paper, 232 pages, 97 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13529-0
$22.95 / £15.95

July, 2008
Cloth, 232 pages, 97 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13528-3
$29.95 / £19.95

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Dogs: Methods of Study and the Place of Dogs in Nature

2. The Origin of Canids and Other Doglike Carnivorous Mammals

3. Diversity: Who Is Who in the Dog Family

4. Anatomy and Function: How the Parts Work

5. Hunting and Social Activity

6. Changing Environments and Canid Evolution

7. Going Places: Braving New Worlds

8. Domestic Dogs

Appendix: Canid Species and Classification

Glossary

Further Reading

Index

Related Subjects

• Evolution
• General Science
• Paleontology

About the Author

Xiaoming Wang is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has been studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae for the past 20 years. In collaboration with Richard H. Tedford, he has published three volumes on the fossil canids of North America. Richard H. Tedford is curator emeritus in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Mauricio Antón is a paleontological artist based at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid. Among his books are Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe, with Jordi Agustí, and The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History, and Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna, both with Alan Turner.

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