Description |
vii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
1. James W. Valentine: An Appreciation / Douglas H. Erwin, David Jablonski and Jere H. Lipps -- 2. Molecular Paleogenetics: The Evolutionary History of Plasmodium and Related Protists / Ananias A. Escalante and Francisco J. Ayala -- 3. Hierarchies in Macroevolution / Niles Eldredge -- 4. Models of Morphological Diversification / Mike Foote -- 5. The Shifting Balance of Natural Communities? / Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd and John M. Pandolfi -- 6. Do Communities Evolve? A Major Question in Evolutionary Paleoecology / Richard K. Bambach and J. Bret Bennington -- 7. Reading the Chronicle of Quaternary Temperate Rocky Shore Faunas / David R. Lindberg and Jere H. Lipps -- 8. On the Nonprevalence of Competitive Replacement in the Evolution of Tetrapods / Michael J. Benton -- 9. Competition in Macroevolution: The Double Wedge Revisited / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. -- 10. Body Size and Macroevolution / David Jablonski |
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11. Evolution of the Fossil Record: Thickness Trends in Marine Skeletal Accumulations and Their Implications / Susan M. Kidwell and Patrick J. Brenchley -- 12. Locomotion and Respiration in Aquatic Air-Breathing Vertebrates / Richard Cowen -- 13. Marine Biological Diversity: Muricid Gastropods as a Case Study / Geerat J. Vermeij -- 14. The Geography of Evolutionary Turnover: A Global Analysis of Extant Bivalves / Karl W. Flessa and David Jablonski -- 15. Understanding Biotic Recoveries: Extinction, Survival, and Preservation during the End-Permian Mass Extinction / Douglas H. Erwin -- 16. Extinction Models / David M. Raup -- 17. On Telling, Altering, and Enriching Stories: An Unpublished Darwin Letter from a Key Incident in His Later Life / Stephen Jay Gould -- Appendix. Geological Time Scale |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Subject |
Evolutionary paleobiology.
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Author |
Erwin, Douglas H., 1958-
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Lipps, Jere H., 1939-
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Jablonski, David, 1953-
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Valentine, James W.
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LC no. |
96022166 |
ISBN |
0226389111 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226389138 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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(cloth : alk. paper) |
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(paperback: alk. paper) |
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