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Encyclopedia of marine mammals by Perrin, W. F, Würsig, Bernd G, Thewissen, J. G. M

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An analysis of von Economo neurons in the cerebral cortex of cetaceans, artiodactyls, and perissodactyls by Raghanti, Mary Ann, Spurlock, Linda B., Robert Treichler, F., Weigel, Sara E., Stimmelmayr, Raphaela, Butti, Camilla, Hans Thewissen, J. G. M., Hof, Patrick R.

“…Von Economo neurons (VENs) are specialized projection neurons with a characteristic spindle-shaped soma and thick basal and apical dendrites. VENs have been…”
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The walking whales: from land to water in eight million years by Thewissen, J. G. M, Dillard, Jacqueline

“…Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to…”
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A Comparison of the Cortical Structure of the Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus), a Basal Mysticete, with Other Cetaceans by Raghanti, Mary Ann, Wicinski, Bridget, Meierovich, Rachel, Warda, Tahia, Dickstein, Dara L., Reidenberg, Joy S., Tang, Cheuk Y., George, John C., Hans Thewissen, J.G.M., Butti, Camilla, Hof, Patrick R.

“…ABSTRACT Few studies exist of the bowhead whale brain and virtually nothing is known about its cortical cytoarchitecture or how it compares to other cetaceans…”
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A Whale with Legs by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Punjab, Pakistan, December 1991. Last year’s ill-fated field trip to Pakistan has left me poor, so I can only afford to go alone to Pakistan this time. There,…”
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A Wasted Dig by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Punjab, Pakistan, January1991. I am excited beyond belief! The National Geographic Society is giving me money to collect fossils in Pakistan: my very own field…”
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A Trip to the Beach by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Driving to the South Carolina Coast, 2002. I think of the long-extinct Indian whales as I drive with my family on a vacation trip to Kiawah Island in South…”
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Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur? by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Exciting though it was, that single ear bone fromPakicetusdid not help us understand just what the earliest of whales looked like. For that, you need entire…”
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From Embryos to Evolution by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Tokyo, Japan, June 7, 2008. No living cetacean has legs that stick out of its body. Except for one, and I am in Japan to see it: a dolphin with hind limbs. I…”
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The Ocean Is a Desert by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…In the Del Rio, a Bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, fall of 1992. My friend Lois Roe and I are graduate students talking shop at a bar. She went to Pakistan to…”
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The Way Forward by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…I love to talk about whale evolution, and my audiences range from fifth graders, to our local Rotary club, to cetologists at international meetings. To point…”
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Learning to Swim by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Stephen Jay Gould’s essay inNatural History¹ highlighted one phrase in the article describingAmbulocetus: the phrase “the feet are enormous.” He liked it…”
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Whales Conquer the World by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Tokyo, Japan, February, 2000. I think about the relatives of whales as I travel on a metro train to visit the laboratory of Professor Norihiro Okada. He goes…”
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The Otter Whale by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Kutch, India, January 12, 2000. The desert of Kutch is mostly uninhabited, except for a few herders, who roam the plain with their flocks. However, there is…”
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The Skeleton Puzzle by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Locality 62, Punjab, Pakistan, 1999. Six of us are back at locality 62, the place where Robert West found the firstPakicetus, digging for more fossils of those…”
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When the Mountains Grew by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Plane Over Pakistan, May 23, 1994. Visits to the Indian subcontinent are best done between December and April, after it has recovered from the drenching…”
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Before Whales by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…Driving on the Gangetic Plain in India March 12, 2005. It is a long and pleasant drive to Dehradun, a straight road initially, then suddenly the Himalayas…”
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The River Whales by Thewissen, J. G. M. Hans

“…The new pakicetid skulls can really help with learning about hearing. It was clear already that cetacean hearing changed when the ancestors of cetaceans went…”
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Gross and histological morphology of the cervical gill slit gland of the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) by Keenan, Tiffany F, McLellan, William A, Rommel, Sentiel A, Costidis, Alexander M, Harms, Craig A, Thewissen, ‘Hans’ JGM, Rotstein, David S, Gay, Mark D, Potter, Charles W, Taylor, Alison R, Wang, Ying, Pabst, D Ann

“…Odontocete cetaceans have undergone profound modifications to their integument and sensory systems and are generally thought to lack specialized exocrine…”
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The Walking Whales by J. G. M. Hans Thewissen

“…Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to…”
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