附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-360) and indexes.
What Where and when? -- From Rocks to Theorues -- A Survey of extent vertebrates -- Early vertebrates and their extant relatives --Interrelationships of the major craniate taxa; -- Anatomical philosophy: homologies transformations and character phylongenies -- Evolution, palacobiogeography and life history -- A short history of research on early vertebrates -- Epilogue.