EVOLUTION OF THE RODENTS. ADVANCES IN PHYLOGENY, FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY, AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Philip G. Cox and Lionel Hautier. 2015, 611 p. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-1-107-044333-3 (Hardback; £ 74.99)

Pierre-Olivier Antoine (1)

1 UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier

This multi-authored book edited by Philip G. Cox and Lionel Hautier highlights the evolutionary history of rodents, as revealed by complementary fields such as phyloge-netics, paleontology, functional morphology, biomechanics, and developmental biology. It is the fifth published volume of a new Cambridge University Press series entitled "Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Biology". As such it allows for positively reconciling molecules, fossils and morphology as irreplaceable clues of a sole story. I guess that for virtually any paleomammalogist, this book would irredeemably recall the volume "Evolutionary Relationships Among Rodents: a Multidisciplinary Analysis" edited thirty years ago by W. P. Luckett & J.-L. Hartenberger. The latter authors were opportunely invited to sign a foreword, punchy as usual and pointing wisely the rise of novel approaches

Domaines: Paléontologie; Biodiversité et Ecologie

Pierre-Olivier Antoine. EVOLUTION OF THE RODENTS. ADVANCES IN PHYLOGENY, FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY, AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Philip G. Cox and Lionel Hautier. 2015, 611 p. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-1-107-044333-3 (Hardback; £ 74.99). AMEGHINIANA, 2015, pp.656-657. ⟨hal-01922728⟩