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

Cheetham, Alan H. (EDT); Jackson, Jeremy B. C. (EDT); Lidgard, Scott (EDT); McKinney, Frank K. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0226389308 / ISBN 13: 9780226389301

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 2001

N° de réf. du vendeur 643489-n

Synopsis :

With advances in molecular and evolutionary biology, one could almost wonder why we need the fossil record. Molecular sequence data can resolve taxanomic 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? This text demonstrates the rich variety of clues to evolution that can be gleaned from the fossil record. Contributors explore modes of development, the tempo of speciation and extinction, and macroevolutionary patterns and trends.

À propos des auteurs: 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.

Scott Lidgard is the MacArthur Associate Curator of Fossil Invertebrates in the Integrative Research Center at the Field Museum, Chicago, and a lecturer in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. He lives in Skokie, IL.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Evolutionary Patterns : Growth, Form, and ...
Éditeur : University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New