Animal Evolution —— Interrelationships of the Living Phyla

I am a volunteer in a natural history museum and have a serious interest in evolution and phylogeny. Nielsen's "Animal Evolution" has been an important reference for me as it reflects a current, well-supported understanding of the interrelationships of all the living phyla. This book is tough reading and really for professionals, graduate students, etc. For a more readable (but very accurate) approach, try "The Tree of Life: A Phylogenic Classification" by Guillaume Lecointre/ Herve Guyader (Belknap Press).

An excellent text by a master of invertebrate zoology. Growing a bit out of date since its publication in 2012, as genomic-based phylogenetics and EvoDevo transform our understanding of animal relationships.

It is a huge task to summarize all the is presently known about animal evolution, and this book accomplishes it with a god embryological perspective. It could be little more detailed, but that would make it a thousand pages longer...

Lovely updated version, always used my first edition copy by science moves on with new molecular and morphological studies. This editions is a great update which I will use in my teaching and research.

This is the assiduously researched, comprehensive guide to each step in evolution from the first known proto-animals through all the later clades. Because it focuses specifically upon animals (as opposed to plants or various microbes) we humans take our place towards the end!

C'est un magnifique ouvrage pour tous ceux qui veulent approfondir les connaissances dans la matière de l'évolution. Les chapitres sont très résumés, avec l'essentiel de chaque groupe d'animaux.