The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 022627571X ISBN 13: 9780226275710

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2015

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"In this volume we find the scientific bones of the paleobiology revolution carefully examined both by historians of science and as personal accounts from many of those who played a part in shaping the transformation. Together they tell the tale, heralded by John Maynard Smith, of the return of paleontologists to the 'high table' of evolutionary biology." (Science)

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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 as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022627571X
• ISBN 13: 9780226275710
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 580
• Herausgeber: Sepkoski David, Ruse Michael