Causes of Evolution: A Paleontological Perspective; edited by Robert M. Ross and Warren D. Allmon; with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould

Ross, Robert M; Allmon, Warren D.

ISBN 10: 0226728242 / ISBN 13: 9780226728247

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990

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Quarto in greenadn blue glossy illus wraps; xiii, 479 pages: illustrations, maps; 24 cm; bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Specifying causal factors in evolution: the paleontological contribution / Warren D. Allmon and Robert M. Ross -- Onshore-offshore trends in marine invertebrate evolution / David Jablonski and David J. Bottjer -- Continental area, dispersion, latitudinal distribution and topographic variety: a test of correlation with terrestrial plant diversity / Bruce H. Tiffney and Karl J. Niklas -- The general correlation between rate of speciation and rate of extinction: fortuitous causal linkages / Steven M. Stanley -- The macroevolution of clade shape / James W. Valentine -- The reciprocal interaction of organism and effective environment: learning more about "And" / Jennifer A. Kitchell. Ecological processes and progressive macroevolution of marine clonal benthos / Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Frank K. McKinney -- Tectonic events and climatic change: opportunities for speciation in Cenozoic marine ostracoda / Thomas M. Cronin and N. Ikeya -- Biotic and abiotic factors in the evolution of early Mesozoic marine mollusks / Anthony Hallam -- Unoccupied morphospace and the coiled geometry of gastropods: architectural constraint or geometric covariation? / David E. Schindel -- Exploring the roles of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the evolutionary radiation of melanopsis / Dana H. Geary. The correlates of high diversity in Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlids: a neontological perspective / Robert L. Dorit -- Ecological causes of clade diversity in hummingbirds: a neontological perspective on the generation of diversity / Robert Bleiweiss -- Faunal diversity and turnover in a Miocene terrestrial sequence / John C. Barry. Lawrence J. Flynn, and David R. Pilbeam -- Quaternary mammals of the Great Basin: extinct giants, Pleistocene relicts and recent immigrants / Timothy H. Heaton. / Evolution (Biology)? Paleontology.? Evolution.? Paleontology? Biological Evolution? ?volution (Biologie)? Pal?ontologie.? paleontology.? evolution.? Evolution (Biology)? Paleontology.? Evolution? Pal?ontologie? ?volution (biologie)? Pal?ontologie.? Identifier: Humans; Evolution; evolutie; evolution; oorsprong; origin; paleontologie; palaeontology; fylogenetica; phylogenetics; fylogenie; phylogeny; Evolution and Phylogeny; Evolutie en fylogenie. Very fine; as new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causes of Evolution: A Paleontological Perspective; edited by Robert M. Ross and Warren D. Allmon; with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226728242
• ISBN 13: 9780226728247
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biology, Life Sciences, Evolution

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Synopsis

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 to Causes 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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The contributors to Causes of Evolution consider, from a paleontological perspective, whether factors exerting major influences on evolution are biotic or abiotic, intrinsic or extrinsic. This book 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.