The bare bones: an unconventional evolutionary history of the skeleton

1. Introduction: How vertebrates and cars are (and are not) similar

2. Evolution to deep time, pedigree to anatomy

3. Inferring the basic vertebrate chassis

4. Evolution of a bony chassis

5. The jawed vertebrate chassis : a primer

6. Placoderms and cartilaginous fishes

7. The fishlike Osteichthyes. Part 1

8. The fishlike Osteichthyes. Part 2

9. The tetrapod chassis : a primer

10. The tetrapod chassis in transition

11. The amphibian chassis

12. The amniote chassis : a primer and the lead-up to true amniotes

13. Modern lizards and the tuatara as an introduction

14. Early reptiles and turtles

15. Snakes and sea dragons

16. The archosaur chassis. Part 1, Modern archosaurs

17. The archosaur chassis. Part 2, A primer on archosaur posture and diversity

18. The archosaur chassis. Part 3, Pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and the origins of birds

19. The mammalian chassis : a primer

20. The evolution of the mammal chassis

21. Brains, milk, and the modern radiations of mammals

Appendix: The cards of time.