The paleobiological revolution : essays on the growth of modern paleontology /
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 foss...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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- 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.