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1 online resource (568 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : paleontology at the high table / David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse -- The emergence of paleobiology / David Sepkoski -- The fossil record : biological or geological signal? / Michael J. Benton -- Biogeography and evolution in the early Paleozoic / Richard A. Fortey -- The discovery of conodont anatomy and its importance for understanding the early history of vertebrates / Richard J. Aldridge and Derek E.G. Briggs -- Emergence of Precambrian paleobiology : a new field of science / J. William Schopf -- Dinosaurs at the table / John R. Horner -- Ladders, bushes, punctuations, and clades : hominid paleobiology in the late twentieth century / Tim D. White -- Punctuated equilibria and speciation : what does it mean to be a Darwinian? / Patricia Princehouse -- Molecular evolution vis-à-vis paleontology / Francisco J. Ayala -- Beyond detective work : empirical testing in paleontology / Derek Turner -- Taxic paleobiology and the pursuit of a unified evolutionary theory / Todd A. Grantham -- Ideas in dinosaur paleontology : resonating to social and political context / David E. Fastovsky -- Reg Sprigg and the discovery of the Ediacara fauna in South Australia : its approach to the high table / Susan Turner and David Oldroyd -- The morphological tradition in German paleontology : Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schindewolf / Manfred D. Laubichler and Karl J. Niklas -- "Radical" or "conservative'? : the origin and early reception of punctuated equilibrium / David Sepkoski -- The shape of evolution : the MBL model and clade shape / John Huss -- Ritual patricide : why Stephen Jay Gould assassinated George Gaylord Simpson / Joe Cain -- The consensus that changed the paleobiological world / Arnold I. Miller -- The infusion of biology into paleontological research / James W. Valentine -- From empirical paleoecology to evolutionary paleobiology : a personal journey / Richard Bambach -- Intellectual evolution across an academic landscape / Rebecca Z. German -- The problem of punctuational speciation and trends in the fossil record / Anthony Hallam -- Punctuated equilibrium versus community evolution / Arthur J. Boucot -- An interview with David M. Raup / edited by David Sepkoski and David M. Raup -- Paleontology in the twenty-first century / David Jablonski -- Punctuations and paradigms : has paleobiology been through a paradigm shift? / Michael Ruse. |
| Summary |
Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, paleontology was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the fossil record would be used against his theory of evolution. But with the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evolutionary paleobiology.
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Evolutionary paleobiology. |
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Paleobiology.
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Paleobiology. |
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Paleontology.
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Paleontology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Sepkoski, David, 1972-
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Ruse, Michael.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paleobiological revolution. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226748610 (DLC) 2008028286 (OCoLC)232786593 |
| ISBN |
9780226748597 (electronic book) |
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0226748596 (electronic book) |
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0226748618 (cloth) |
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9780226748610 (cloth) |
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1282426907 |
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9781282426900 |
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