Evolutionary PaleobiologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 M12 15 - 484 pages Representing the state of the art in evolutionary paleobiology, this book provides a much-needed overview of this rapidly changing field. An influx of ideas and techniques both from other areas of biology and from within paleobiology itself have resulted in numerous recent advances, including increased recognition of the relationships between ecological and evolutionary theory, renewed vigor in the study of ecological communities over geologic timescales, increased understanding of biogeographical patterns, and new mathematical approaches to studying the form and structure of plants and animals. Contributors to this volume—a veritable who's who of eminent researchers—present the results of original research and new theoretical developments, and provide directions for future studies. Individually wide ranging, these papers all share a debt to the work of James W. Valentine, one of the founders of modern evolutionary paleobiology. This volume's unified approach to the study of life on earth will be a major contribution to paleobiology, evolution, and ecology. |
Contents
The Evolutionary History of Plasmodium | 21 |
Hierarchies in Macroevolution | 42 |
Models of Morphological Diversification | 62 |
The Shifting Balance of Natural Communities? | 89 |
Do Communities Evolve? A Major Question in Evolutionary | 123 |
Reading the Chronicle of Quaternary Temperate Rocky Shore Faunas | 161 |
On the Nonprevalence of Competitive Replacement in the Evolution | 185 |
The Double Wedge Revisited | 211 |
Thickness Trends in Marine Skeletal | 290 |
Locomotion and Respiration in Aquatic AirBreathing Vertebrates | 337 |
Muricid Gastropods as a Case Study | 355 |
A Global Analysis | 376 |
Extinction Survival | 398 |
Extinction Models | 419 |
An Unpublished Darwin | 437 |
Body Size and Macroevolution | 256 |
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