Rereading the fossil record [electronic resource] : the growth of paleobiology as an evolutionary discipline / David Sepkoski.

9780226748580 (electronic book)
0226748553
9780226748559

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (432 p.)

QE719.8 .S47 2012eb

560.9

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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