| 书目名称 | The Equids | | 副标题 | A Suite of Splendid | | 编辑 | Herbert H. T. Prins,Iain J. Gordon | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The reader achieves insight that speciation does not equate with specialization.Step-by-step development of the understanding that form and function are linked but adaptation is a different concept.Ho | | 丛书名称 | Fascinating Life Sciences | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .The narrative of the progression of the ‘horse family’ through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and three toes on their hind legs, to the valiant long-legged, single-toed modern grazing horses, beloved by racing enthusiasts, is the poster child of evolution. However, like the rhinos or tapirs, the horse-like zebras, wild asses, kulans, kiangs, onagers, and the real horses are often portrayed as being past their evolutionary peak as compared to the more recently evolved ruminants (especially bovids and deer) which now dominate the grazing niche. That story of a species group over its evolutionary zenith is compelling, but anyone who has travelled in the remote savannas of Africa or the cold wild deserts of Central Asia is awed with herds of glorious animals that clearly do not ruminate. It appears as though these, so-named ‘hind-gut fermenters’, are perhaps much better adapted to these environments than one is led to believe. The purpose of this book is to dispel the myth of the inferior Equidae by describing, and investigating, the evolutionary and ecological journey of the horse family in all its glory.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Adaptation; Evolution; Hind-gut Fermenter; Horse; Ruminant | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27144-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-27146-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-27144-1Series ISSN 2509-6745 Series E-ISSN 2509-6753 | | issn_series | 2509-6745 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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