Evolutionary Paleobiology
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Representing the state of the art in evolutionary paleobiology, this book provides a much-needed overview of this rapidly changing field. An influx of ideas and techniques both from other areas of biology and from within paleobiology itself have resulted in numerous recent advances, including increased recognition of the relationships between ecological and evolutionary theory, renewed vigor in the study of ecological communities over geologic timescales, increased understanding of biogeographical patterns, and new mathematical approaches to studying the form and structure of plants and animals.Contributors to this volume—a veritable who's who of eminent researchers—present the results of original research and new theoretical developments, and provide directions for future studies. Individually wide ranging, these papers all share a debt to the work of James W. Valentine, one of the founders of modern evolutionary paleobiology. This volume's unified approach to the study of life on earth will be a major contribution to paleobiology, evolution, and ecology.
Acknowledgments1James W. Valentine: An Appreciation12Molecular Paleogenetics: The Evolutionary History of Plasmodium and Related Protists213Hierarchies in Macroevolution424Models of Morphological Diversification625The Shifting Balance of Natural Communities?896Do Communities Evolve? A Major Question in Evolutionary Paleoecology1237Reading the Chronicle of Quaternary Temperate Rocky Shore Faunas1618On the Nonprevalence of Competitive Replacement in the Evolution of Tetrapods1859Competition in Macroevolution: The Double Wedge Revisited21110Body Size and Macroevolution25611Evolution of the Fossil Record: Thickness Trends in Marine Skeletal Accumulations and Their Implications29012Locomotion and Respiration in Aquatic Air-Breathing Vertebrates33713Marine Biological Diversity: Muricid Gastropods as a Case Study35514The Geography of Evolutionary Turnover: A Global Analysis of Extant Bivalves37615Understanding Biotic Recoveries: Extinction, Survival, and Preservation during the End-Permian Mass Extinction39816Extinction Models41917On Telling, Altering, and Enriching Stories: An Unpublished Darwin Letter from a Key Incident in His Later Life437AppendixGeological Time Scale461List of Contributors465Author Index467Subject Index481
