Description: 1 * Synopsis of the Earliest Cetaceans: Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, and Protocetidae.- 2 Middle to Late Eocene Basilosaurines and Dorudontines.- 3 Molecular Evidence for the Phylogenetic Affinities of Cetacea.- 4 Cetaceans Are Highly Derived Artiodactyls.- 5 Phylogenetic and Morphometric Reassessment of the Dental Evidence for a Mesonychian and Cetacean Clade.- 6 Relationships of Cetacea to Terrestrial Ungulates and the Evolution of Cranial Vasculature in Cete.- 7 Middle Eocene Cetaceans from the Harudi and Subathu Formations of India.- 8 Postcranial Osteology of the North American Middle Eocene Protocetid Georgiacetus.- 9 Homology and Transformation of Cetacean Ectotympanic Structures.- 10 Biomechanical Perspective on the Origin of Cetacean Flukes.- 11 Implications of Vertebral Morphology for Locomotor Evolution in Early Cetacea.- 12 Structural Adaptations of Early Archaeocete Long Bones.- 13 Evolution of Thermoregulatory Function in Cetacean Reproductive Systems.- 14 Isotopic Approaches to Understanding the Terrestrial-to-Marine Transition of the Earliest Cetaceans.- 15 Paleobiological Perspectives on Mesonychia, Archaeoceti, and the Origin of Whales.- 16 Cetacean Origins: Evolutionary Turmoil during the Invasion of the Oceans.

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