Table of Contents

1 The Ancestors of the Mammals.- 2 The Therapsids.- 3 Specialised Cynodont Derivatives.- 4 The First Mammals.- 5 Dentitions, Tooth-replacement and Jaw Articulation.- 6 The Evolution of Mammalian Sight and Hearing.- 7 The Completion of the First Stage of Mammalian Evolution in the Middle Jurassic.- 8 The Mammals of the Upper Jurassic.- 9 The Mammals of the Lower Cretaceous.- 10 Epilogue.