New Approaches To Speciation In The Fossil Record
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| Author | : Douglas H. Erwin |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780231082488 |
A collection of case studies that seeks to reexamine the understanding of the speciation patterns that appear in the fossil record through an analysis of the patterns and their presumed processes. In each case, the rigorous techniques of morphological analysis, quantitative genetic analysis, phylogenetic analysis, and sedimentary completeness have been employed.
| Author | : Warren D. Allmon |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2016-10-05 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 022637744X |
The literature of paleobiology is brimming with qualifiers and cautions about using species in the fossil record, or equating such species with those recognized among living organisms. Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record digs through this literature and surveys the recent research on species in paleobiology. In these pages, experts in the field examine what they think species are - in their particular taxon of specialty or more generally in the fossil record. They also reflect on what the answers mean for thinking about species in macroevolution. The first step in this approach is an overview of the Modern Synthesis, and paleobiology’s development of quantitative ways of documenting and analyzing variation with fossil assemblages. Following that, this volume’s central chapters explore the challenges of recognizing and defining species from fossil specimens, and show how with careful interpretation and a clear species concept, fossil species may be sufficiently robust for meaningful paleobiological analyses. Tempo and mode of speciation over time are also explored, exhibiting how the concept of species, if more refined, can reveal enormous amounts about the interplay between species origins and extinction and local and global climate change.
| Author | : David Sepkoski |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2015-03-05 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 022627294X |
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but influential group of paleontologists and examines the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics involved in the ascendency of paleobiology. By tracing the role of computer technology, large databases, and quantitative analytical methods in the emergence of paleobiology, this book also offers insight into the growing prominence and centrality of data-driven approaches in recent science.
| Author | : Warren D. Allmon |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0195373200 |
Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided major insights into our understanding of the history of life. He helped to reinvigorate paleontology, launch macroevolution on a new course, and provide a context in which the biological developmental stages of an organism's embryonic growth could be integrated into an understanding of evolution. This book is a set of reflections on the many areas of Gould's intellectual life by the people who knew and understood him best: former students and prominent close collaborators. Mostly a critical assessment of his legacy, the chapters are not technical contributions but rather offer a combination of intellectual bibliography, personal memoir, and reflection on Gould's diverse scientific achievements. The work includes the most complete bibliography of his writings to date and offers a multi-dimensional view of Gould's life-work not to be found in any other volume.
| Author | : Michael Ruse |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1020 |
| Release | : 2009-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674031753 |
Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today. A second encyclopedic section travels the spectrum of topics in evolution with concise, informative, and accessible entries on individuals from Aristotle and Linneaus to Louis Leakey and Jean Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley and E. O. Wilson to Joseph Felsenstein and Motoo Kimura; and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism. Readers will find the latest word on the history and philosophy of evolution, the nuances of the science itself, and the intricate interplay among evolutionary study, religion, philosophy, and society. Appearing at the beginning of the Darwin Year of 2009—the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species—this volume is a fitting tribute to the science Darwin set in motion.
| Author | : Jeffrey S. Levinton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 2001-08-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521005500 |
An expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution, integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity.
| Author | : Mark E. Patzkowsky |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-04-16 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0226649377 |
This work weaves important strands of the paleontological literature into a coherent worldview that emphasizes the importance of understanding the geological record.
| Author | : Derek E. G. Briggs |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0470999284 |
Palaeobiology: A Synthesis was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality. Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther have once again brought together over 150 leading authorities from around the world to produce Palaeobiology II. Using the same successful formula, the content is arranged as a series of concise articles, taking a thematic approach to the subject, rather than treating the various fossil groups systematically. This entirely new book, with its diversity of new topics and over 100 new contributors, reflects the exciting developments in the field, including accounts of spectacular newly discovered fossils, and embraces data from other disciplines such as astrobiology, geochemistry and genetics. Palaeobiology II will be an invaluable resource, not only for palaeontologists, but also for students and researchers in other branches of the earth and life sciences. Written by an international team of recognised authorities in the field. Content is concise but informative. Demonstrates how palaeobiological studies are at the heart of a range of scientific themes.
| Author | : George Gaylord Simpson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Pierre Pontarotti |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2012-06-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3642304249 |
Comprehensively illustrated and written by leading researchers, this invaluable publication features papers from the annual Evolutionary Biology meetings in Marseilles. It includes a description of the life and work of the celebrated biologist J.B.S. Haldane.
