Abstract
DURING recent years no branch of study has made more important contributions to biology than that of extinct mammals. It has not only led to a more satisfactory understanding of the mammals themselves and their relationships. It has also thrown unexpected light on the general processes of organic evolution and the problems of geographical distribution. The broad features in the secular development of several groups of mammals are now better known than the growth stages in the individual life-history of many common existing species; and the underlying principles are often discoverable from a consideration of the numerous recurring phenomena which are sufficiently well known for comparison.
The Age of Mammals in Europe, Asia, and North America.
By Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. Pp. xvii + 635, with illustrations. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 18s. 6d. net.
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W., A. The Age of Mammals in Europe, Asia, and North America . Nature 88, 135–136 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088135a0
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