Evolution of Amphibian Skull

The book is the outcome of some twenty years of work devoted to to the study of the amphibian skull development.

The aims of ths work are: (i) to study the urodelan skull onthogeny; (ii) to determine correlative relationships between different cranial elements: (iii) to study the dynamic of establishment of relationships underlying specific structural patterns in the amphibian skull; (iv) to reconstruct the scenario of the phylogenetic establishment of cranial structural patterns in early tetrapods; and (v) based on the structure and development of correlative systems in the amphibian skull, to evaluate the phylogenetic affinities of recent amphibians.

The book is intended for evolutionary biologists, specialists in amphibian biology and evolution, palaeontologists and anyone interested in general biology.