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Paleobiology is a discipline that attempts to reconstruct the life history of extinct organisms trying to understand in a more complete panorama what organisms did and how they lived. Achieving this goal requires the interaction with other biology disciplines, among which are functional morphology, biomechanics and ecomorphology. These play a fundamental role in the evolutionary analysis of form and function, providing the experimental, theoretical, and mechanical basis for understanding the evolution of organisms. Although focused on fossil vertebrates, the book ?Forma y Función en Paleobiología de Vertebrados? (Form and Function in Vertebrate Paleobiology) of Vizcaíno et al. addresses the tools and approaches used in paleobiological analyses providing also a solid theoretical base of the discipline.