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Vendor: David Sepkoski
Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to "think catastrophically" about extinction. We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by...- $35.00
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Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to "think catastrophically" about extinction. We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by...- $28.00
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Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a...- $38.00
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The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well...- $43.00
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