Chapter 5 Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution

 

Key Terms

 

Adaptive radiation

p. 94

Geological time scale

p. 90

Analogies

p. 81

Heterodont

p. 93

Ancestral (primitive)

p. 82

Homologies

p. 81

Biological species concept

p. 86

Homoplasy

p. 81

Chordata

p. 80

Interspecific

p. 88

Cladistics

p. 81

Intraspecific

p. 88

Cladogram

p. 84

Paleospecies

p. 89

Classification

p. 78

Phylogenetic tree

p. 84

Continental drift

p. 91

Placental

p. 93

Derived (modified)

p. 82

Punctuated equilibrium

p. 96

Endothermic

p. 93

Sexual dimorphism

p. 88

Epochs

p. 92

Shared derived

p. 84

Evolutionary systematics

p. 81

Speciation

p. 86

Genus

p. 89

Vertebrates

p. 80

 

Suggested Internet Exercises

 

@     Go online to the University of California, Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology Hall of Mammals (http://wwwucmp.berkely.edu/mammal/mammal.html to better understand the evolution and classification of mammals.