New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record

New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record
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.