Causes of Evolution: A Paleontological Perspective - Hardcover

Ross, Robert M.; Allmon, Warren D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226728234 ISBN 13: 9780226728230

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

By studying evolution across geological time, paleontologists gain a perspective that sometimes complements and sometimes conflicts with views based solely on studies of extant species. The contributors toCauses of Evolution consider whether factors exerting major influences on evolution are biotic or abiotic, intrinsic or extrinsic.

Causes of Evolution presents a broad sampling of paleontological research programs encompassing vertebrates, invertebrates, and vascular plants; empirical work and theoretical models; organisms ranging in age from Cambrian to Recent; and temporal scales from ecological time to hundreds of millions of years. The diverse array of research styles and opinions presented will acquaint scientists in related fields with the strengths and weaknesses of paleontology as an approach to evolutionary studies and will give evolutionary biologists of every stripe new bases for evaluating the scope and bias of their own work.

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Warren D. Allmon is director of the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York, and professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226728234
• ISBN 13: 9780226728230
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 493
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