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CARRANO, M. T., GAUDIN, T. J., BLOB, R. W. & WIBLE, J. R. (eds) 2006. Amniote Paleobiology. Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles.

vi + 547 pp. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. Price US $95.00, £60.00 (hard covers), US $40.00, £25.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 226 09477 4; 0 226 09478 2 (pb).

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A memorial volume dedicated to Jim Hopson, who, during the past 40 years, has revolutionized our understanding of basal mammals, Amniote Paleobiology comprises a series of papers authored by his former post-graduate and postdoctoral students at the University of Chicago, most of them unsurprisingly focusing on aspects of mammalian palaeobiology. Given the title, I was hoping for a volume composed of papers on large-scale evolutionary processes and incorporating techniques that would be applicable to all areas of vertebrate palaeontology. However, I was disappointed to find that most of the papers . . . [Full Text of this Article]