Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates

Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates represents the first comprehensive overview of how plant-eating evolved in land-dwelling vertebrates. It gives reviews of both the structural adaptations necessary for a herbivorous way of life, and the evolutionary history of feeding on plants in major groups of terrestrial mammals, especially dinosaurs and ungulate mammals. Essentially, it also reinvestigates the evidence for and against herbivory or omnivory in these groups, making...
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Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates represents the first comprehensive overview of how plant-eating evolved in land-dwelling vertebrates. It gives reviews of both the structural adaptations necessary for a herbivorous way of life, and the evolutionary history of feeding on plants in major groups of terrestrial mammals, especially dinosaurs and ungulate mammals. Essentially, it also reinvestigates the evidence for and against herbivory or omnivory in these groups, making this the definitive reference work in this area for paleontologists and evolutionary biologists.