Retaining his unique emphasis on function and evolution of vertebrates, complete anatomical detail, and excellent pedagogy, author Kenneth Kardong includes a substantial amount of new, beautifully-illustrated art and updated narrative in this new edition. This one-semester text is designed for your upper-level majors course. Features :NEW! Completely updated art program includes impressive morphological detail, making the text illustrations valuable teaching tools. Over 32 pages feature illustrations that use full-color in a functional way to help students visualize concept; NEW! The supporting laboratory manual by Zalisko/Kardong is both a dissection guide and a pictorial atlas of specimen anatomy. This manual contains a new Student Art Notebook which allows students a space to make notes on over 80 key art figures!;NEW! The unique summary chapter serves to tie all the ends together into one complete "story.;NEW! Related web links supporting content can now be found at the end of each chapter, as well on the text's web site; NEW! This new edition will be supported by a web site featuring: chapter-by-chapter references, chapter-by-chapter web links, and essay questions with immediate student feedback; NEW! Throughout the lab manual that accompanies this new edition, there will be a "book" icon in the margin next to material that is also reflected in the text. These icons will be page-referenced, so students can easily locate the material in the main text for reference or further reading. Integration of evolutionary and functional information helps students better understand the anatomy of vertebrates.