572 - Heredity and Evolution 



16. Briefly discuss each of the following topics: 



a. origin of the Schizomycophyta and Pro- 

 tozoa 



b. origin of the Thallophyta and Porifera 



c. origin of the higher invertebrate phyla, 

 and of the earliest vertebrates 



d. first appearance of land plants (mosses, 

 ferns, and seed plants); origin of land 

 vertebrates 



e. origin and extinction of the forests of 

 eiant ferns 



f. the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and 

 other primitive reptilian forms; origin 

 of the birds and mammals; the heyday 

 of the cycad and conifer forests 



g. the replacement of the archaic mam- 

 mals by the modern mammalian forms 



h. the rise of man 

 17. List at least ten different fields of study that 

 contribute significant evidence as to the 

 probable mechanism and the actual course 

 of evolution. 



FURTHER READINGS 



1. Man and the Vertebrates, by A. S. Romer; 

 Chicago. 1941. 



2. Men of the Old Stone Age, by H. F. Osborn; 

 New York, 1918. 



3. Organic Evolution, by R. S. Lull; New York, 

 1929. 



4. Embryos and Ancestors, by G. R. DeBeer; 

 Oxford, 1940. 



5. Tempo aiid Mode in Evolution, by G. G. 

 Simpson; New York. 1944. 



6. Up from the Ape, by E. A. Hooton; New 

 York, 1945. 



