The paleobiological revolution :: essays on the growth of modern paleontology /

Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, paleontology was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the foss...

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Other Authors: Sepkoski, David, 1972-, Ruse, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, paleontology was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the fossil record would be used against his theory of evolution. But 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (568 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226748597
0226748596
0226748618
9780226748610
1282426907
9781282426900
9786612426902
661242690X

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