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Science 8 August 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5634, pp. 766 - 767
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080787
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Giving Fish a Hand

A review by Neil H. Shubin

Gaining Ground The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods
by Jennifer A. Clack
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2002. 383 pp. $49.95, £37.95. ISBN 0-253-34054-3.

Through her discussion of when, where, and how vertebrates first came ashore, Clack offers an up-to-date account of our understanding of the fish to tetrapod transition, one of the classic evolutionary stories.
The reviewer is in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: nshubin{at}uchicago.edu

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