Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Eternal metaphors of palaeontology / Stephen Jay Gould
  • General patterns of metazoan evolution / James W. Valentine
  • Stochastic models in evolutionary palaeontology / David M. Raup
  • Brachiopod evolution / Alwyn Williams and John M. Hurst
  • Evolution of primitive echinoderms / C.R.C. Paul
  • Patterns and themes of evolution among bryozoa / Thomas J.M. Schopf
  • Trends, rates, and patterns of evolution in the bivalvia / Steven M. Stanley
  • Ammonite evolution / W.J. Kennedy
  • Trilobites and evolutionary patterns / Niles Eldredge
  • Patterns of evolution in the graptolites / R.B. Rickards
  • Evolution of trace fossil communities / Adolf Seilacher
  • The pattern of diversification among fishes / Keith Stewart Thomson
  • Patterns of amphibian evolution : an extended example of the incompleteness of the fossil record / Robert L. Carroll
  • Tetrapod mass extinctions- a model of the regulation of speciation rates and immigration by cycles of topographic diversity / R.T. Bakker
  • Patterns of evolution in the mammalian fossil record / Philip D. Gingerich
  • Patterns of evolution in early angiosperms / James A. Doyle
  • Patterns of evolution : a summary and discussion / Thomas J.M. Schopf.