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Common terms and phrasesAcanthostega adapted Africa air sacs American anatomist anatomy ancestors ancient animals apes aquatic archaeocetes Archaeopteryx australopithecines Basilosaurus bipedal birds bones Buckland called cetaceans chimpanzees closely coelurosaurs creatures Cuvier cynodonts Darwinius Deinonychus Devonian discovery earliest early tetrapods earth elephants Eocene evidence evolutionary evolved FIGURE fins fish forms fossil record genus geological geologist hind limbs hominin Homo erectus horse evolution human Huxley hypothesis Hyracotherium ichthyosaurs Ichthyostega known Koch Koch’s later Lepidosiren lineages living London look lower jaw Lyell Macmillan Publishers Ltd mammalian mammals mammoth Marsh mass extinction mastodon mesonychids million years ago Museum Natural History natural selection naturalists organisms Origin of Species Owen’s Pakicetus paleontologists pattern pelycosaurs permission from Macmillan Pleistocene populations present primate proboscideans relatives remains represented reptiles Richard Owen rock scientific scientists similar skeleton skull specimen Steno strata synapsids teeth terrestrial therapsids theropod thought Tiktaalik toes traits transition tree vertebrates whales Bibliographic information
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