Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: The Phylogenetic Frame
3: General Body Organization
4: Integument
5: Muscular System
6: Nervous System
7: Sensory Organs
8: Body Cavities
9: Excretory System
10: Ciculatory System
11: Respiratory System
12: Intestinal System
13: Reproductive System
14: Gametes
Final Conclusions

About the Author

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa was born in Königstein, Germany in 1966.He followed his passion for zoology by studying in Gießen and Göttingen (Germany), where he received his PhD in 1996. He worked as a PostDoc in Pittsburgh and Tampa (USA) and as assistant researcher at the Universities of Bielefeld and Braunschweig. Currently in the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Bielefeld, he is about to take up a position as the Curator at the
Zoological Museum at the University of Hamburg.

Reviews

It succeeds in providinf an integrative view on this important but often neglected aspect of metazoan evolution...highly recommend this volume as an introduction to the evolution of animal organ systems.
*Thomas Boehm The Quarterly Review of Biology*