| Description |
568 pages : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Evolutionary paleobiology.
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Paleobiology.
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Paleontology.
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| Author |
Sepkoski, David, 1972-
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Ruse, Michael.
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| LC no. |
2008028286 |
| ISBN |
9780226748610 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226748618 cloth alkaline paper |
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