Rereading the fossil record [electronic resource] : the growth of paleobiology as an evolutionary discipline / David Sepkoski.
Sepkoski, David, 1972-
2012
QE719.8 .S47 2012eb
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Title Rereading the fossil record [electronic resource] : the growth of paleobiology as an evolutionary discipline / David Sepkoski.
Author Sepkoski, David, 1972-
ISBN 9780226748580 (electronic book)
0226748553
9780226748559
Publication Details Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (432 p.)
Call Number QE719.8 .S47 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 560.9
Summary Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin’s day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontologists were often regarded as mere fossil collectors by many evolutionary biologists, their attempts to contribute to evolutionary theory ignored or regarded with scorn. In the 1950s, however, paleontologists began mounting a counter-movement that insisted on the valid, important, and original contribution of paleontology to evolutionary theory.
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Introduction: rereading the fossil record
Darwin's dilemma: paleontology, the fossil record, and evolutionary theory
The growth of theoretical paleontology
The rise of quantitative paleobiology
From paleoecology to paleobiology
Punctuated equilibria and the rise of the new paleobiology
The founding of a research journal
"Towards a nomothetic paleontology": the MBL model and stochastic paleontology
A "natural history of data": the rise of taxic paleobiology
The dynamics of mass extinctions
Toward a new macroevolutionary synthesis
Conclusion: paleontology at the high table?

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