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Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Adrian P. Hunt,Asher J. Lichtig
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : David Sepkoski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226272948
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but influential group of paleontologists and examines the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics involved in the ascendency of paleobiology. By tracing the role of computer technology, large databases, and quantitative analytical methods in the emergence of paleobiology, this book also offers insight into the growing prominence and centrality of data-driven approaches in recent science.
Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Adrian P. Hunt,Asher J. Lichtig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fossils
ISBN : OCLC:1289523255
Author : Andrew B. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444313901
This new text sets out to establish the key role played by systematics in deciphering patterns of evolution from the fossil record. It begins by considering the nature of the species in the fossil record and then outlines recent advances in the methodology used to establish phylogenetics relationships, stressing why fossil evidence can be crucial. The way species are grouped into higher taxa, and how this affects their utility in evolutionary studies is also discussed. Because the fossil record abounds with sampling and preservational biases, the book emphasizes that observed patterns can rarely be taken at face value. It is argued that evolutionary trees, constructed from combining phylogenetic and biostratigraphic data, provide the best approach for investigating patterns of evolution through geologic time. The only integrated text covering the study of evolutionary patterns from a phylogenetic stance.
Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Robert B. Blodgett,Asher J. Lichtig,Adrian P. Hunt
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fossils
ISBN : OCLC:1149370181
Author : John G. Fleagle,Alfred L. Rosenberger
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483267074
The Platyrrhine Fossil Record is a compendium of papers presented in a symposium of the 12th Congress of the International Congress of Primatology held in Brazil. One paper reviews evidence from fossil platyrrhines where the author concludes new dating and environmental data where these animals lived. Another paper describes the major changes pertaining to South American mammalian fauna during the Cenozoic Era, which he relates to global and regional geotectonic changes. Other papers review the paleontology and geology of the Miocene Pintura Formation and reassess the morphological transformations traditionally assumed as having been involved in platyrrhine phylogeny. One author also proposes that a prosimian-like ancestor is probably the predecessors of anthropoids; any similarities and primitive mammals can be evolutionary reversals associated with quadrupedal movements. The text also addresses the issue whether anthropoids, including platyrrhines, evolved from a prosimian ancestor or prosimians are just a group with mammalian postcranial skeletal structure. One author also reviews fossil remains found in the Caribbean, citing seven endemic taxa of platyrrhines in Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica. Anthropologists, researchers involved in anatomical sciences, academicians, and administrators whose works are connected with museums of natural history or institutes of primate research will find this collection valuable.
Author : Robert M. Sullivan,Spencer G. Lucas,Justin A. Spielmann
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fossils
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Kenneth De Baets,John Warren Huntley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030522339
This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various parasite groups, in order to provide a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism as part of biodiversity. This is in contrast to most contributions by parasitologists in the literature that focus on circular lines of evidence, such as extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach is narrow and fails to provide the wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume two focuses on the importance of direct host associations and host responses such as pathologies in the geological record to constrain the role of antagonistic interactions in driving the diversification and extinction of parasite-host relationships and disease. To better understand the impact on host populations, emphasis is given to arthropods, colonial metazoans, echinoderms, mollusks and vertebrates as hosts. In addition, novel techniques used to constrain interactions in deep time are discussed ranging from chemical and microscopic investigations of host remains, such as blood and coprolites, to the statistical inference of lateral transfer of transposons and host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics using molecular divergence time estimation.
Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Robert M. Sullivan
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Stephen K. Donovan,Christopher R. C. Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822028387876
The 'incompleteness of the fossil record' is an excuse used by some scientists to reject any fossil evidence that runs counter to current preconceptions. Adequacy and completeness are difficult concepts that should not be confused. The fossil record may be incomplete, but it is entirely adequate for many and most requirements of palaeontology, as well as answering wider questions in geology and biology. The Adequacy of the Fossil Record is intended to be an up-to-date review that seeks to debunk these and other objections.
Author : Patricia H. Kelley,Michal Kowalewski,Thor A. Hansen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461501619
From the Foreword: "Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume, compiled by a group of expert specialists on the evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering effort to collate the information now accumulating in this important field. It will be a standard reference on which future study of one of the central dynamics of ecology as seen in the fossil record will be built." (Richard K. Bambach, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University)
Author : Michael J. Benton,David A. T. Harper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118685402
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of biogeography and biostratigraphy to engineering analysis of dinosaur skulls, and from homeobox genes to cladistics. All the well-known fossil groups are included, including microfossils and invertebrates, but an important feature is the thorough coverage of plants, vertebrates and trace fossils together with discussion of the origins of both life and the metazoans. All key related subjects are introduced, such as systematics, ecology, evolution and development, stratigraphy and their roles in understanding where life came from and how it evolved and diversified. Unique features of the book are the numerous case studies from current research that lead students to the primary literature, analytical and mathematical explanations and tools, together with associated problem sets and practical schedules for instructors and students. “..any serious student of geology who does not pick this book off the shelf will be putting themselves at a huge disadvantage. The material may be complex, but the text is extremely accessible and well organized, and the book ought to be essential reading for palaeontologists at undergraduate, postgraduate and more advanced levels—both in Britain as well as in North America.” Falcon-Lang, H., Proc. Geol. Assoc. 2010 “...this is an excellent introduction to palaeontology in general. It is well structured, accessibly written and pleasantly informative .....I would recommend this as a standard reference text to all my students without hesitation.” David Norman Geol Mag 2010 Companion website This book includes a companion website at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/paleobiology The website includes: · An ongoing database of additional Practical’s prepared by the authors · Figures from the text for downloading · Useful links for each chapter · Updates from the authors
Author : Bruce S. Lieberman,Roger L. Kaesler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444318647
Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in thefossil record. This book focuses on the meaning andsignificance of that archive and is designed for introductorycollege science students, including non-science majors, enrolled insurvey courses emphasizing paleontology, geology and biology. From the origins of animals to the evolution of rap music, fromancient mass extinctions to the current biodiversity crisis, andfrom the Snowball Earth to present day climate change this bookcovers it, with an eye towards showing how past life on Earth putsthe modern world into its proper context. The history of life andthe patterns and processes of evolution are especially emphasized,as are the interconnections between our planet, its climate system,and its varied life forms. The book does not just describe thehistory of life, but uses actual examples from life’s historyto illustrate important concepts and theories.
Author : Douglas H. Erwin,Robert L. Anstey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231082487
A collection of case studies that seeks to reexamine the understanding of the speciation patterns that appear in the fossil record through an analysis of the patterns and their presumed processes. In each case, the rigorous techniques of morphological analysis, quantitative genetic analysis, phylogenetic analysis, and sedimentary completeness have been employed.