Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record by Jackson, Jeremy B. C.

Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226389318)

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Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record by Jackson, Jeremy B. C.

Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record

$56.00
Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record by Jackson, Jeremy B. C.

Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record

$56.00
Format: Paperback
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With all the recent advances in molecular and evolutionary biology, one could almost wonder why we need the fossil record. Molecular sequence data can resolve taxonomic relationships, experiments with fruit flies demonstrate evolution and development in real time, and field studies of Galapagos finches have provided the strongest evidence for natural selection ever measured in the wild. What, then, can fossils teach us that living organisms cannot?

Evolutionary Patterns demonstrates the rich variety of clues to evolution that can be gleaned from the fossil record. Chief among these are the major trends and anomalies in species development revealed only by "deep time," such as periodic mass extinctions and species that remain unchanged in form for millions of years. Contributors explore modes of development, the tempo of speciation and extinction, and macroevolutionary patterns and trends. The result is an important contribution to paleobiology and evolutionary biology, and a spirited defense of the fossil record as a crucial tool for understanding evolution and development.

The contributors are Ann F. Budd, Efstathia Bura, Leo W. Buss, Mike Foote, Jörn Geister, Stephen Jay Gould, Eckart Hâkansson, Jean-Georges Harmelin, Lee-Ann C. Hayek, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Kenneth G. Johnson, Nancy Knowlton, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney, Daniel W. McShea, Ross H. Nehm, Beth Okamura, John M. Pandolfi, Paul D. Taylor, and Erik Thomsen.

Author: Jeremy B. C. Jackson
ISBN-10: 0226389316
ISBN-13: 9780226389318
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2001
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.97d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 09/01/2001 pg. 63
By Jeremy B. C. Jackson
By Jeremy B. C. Jackson
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Jeremy B. C. Jackson is director of the Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the William and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Scott Lidgard is an associate curator of fossil invertebrates in the Department of Geology at the Field Museum, lecturer in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and adjunct associate professor of biology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Frank K. McKinney is a professor emeritus in the Department of Geology at Appalachian State University and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Palaeontology at The Natural History Museum, London.

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