Rockwood Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Has the understanding of bryozoan biology changed much since 1978 ? Would a book published at that time be a good value or more often just historical perspective ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I don't think 1978 would be too old. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Thanks. I was leaning that way myself. I hesitate to pay a lot for endless descriptions, but their individual / colonial nature interests me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 From a paleontological Point of view I would try and get my hands on the appropriate volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. New ones may be expensive but used copies can be found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verydeadthings Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 The main thing I would treat with caution in a textbook that old is the phylogenetic relationships. There has been a lot of molecular phylogenetic work since the late '70's in that area. Morphology and genus-level descriptions probably haven't changed that much. Not an expert on bryozoans, I'd say the same thing for any marine invertebrate group. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squali Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Jstor.com offers a free membership to the public where you can check out 3 publications at a time. They have a vast collection of Journals. Paleo. and Bio. Etc.. Some journals are as current as last year. Be careful though, I lost a day there It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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