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Toc: Contents......Page 6Preface......Page 7Acknowledgments......Page 9I History of the Earth and Life......Page 122 Advanced Metazoans and the Ancestry of Vertebrates......Page 273 The Origin of Amphibians......Page 484 The Radiation of Carboniferous Amphibians......Page 715 Adaptation, Radiation, and Relationships......Page 1546 The Zenith of Amphibian Diversity......Page 172Plates......Page 2057 The Origin of Amniotes: Escape from the Water......Page 2238 Stereospondyls. Escape from the Land......Page 2399 The Enigma of Modern Amphibian Origins......Page 25810 The Ancestry of Frogs......Page 283I I The Ancestry of Salamanders......Page 29712 Eocaecilia and the Origin of Caecilians......Page 32113 The Success of Modern Amphibians......Page 33614 The Future of Amphibians......Page 353Abbreviations Used in Illustrations......Page 360Glossary......Page 363References......Page 365Index......Page 383