Author: Samuel Almond Miller
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Category : Invertebrates, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Winifred Goldring
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Category : Crinoidea, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: Warren D. Allmon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637744X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The literature of paleobiology is brimming with qualifiers and cautions about using species in the fossil record, or equating such species with those recognized among living organisms. Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record digs through this literature and surveys the recent research on species in paleobiology. In these pages, experts in the field examine what they think species are - in their particular taxon of specialty or more generally in the fossil record. They also reflect on what the answers mean for thinking about species in macroevolution. The first step in this approach is an overview of the Modern Synthesis, and paleobiology’s development of quantitative ways of documenting and analyzing variation with fossil assemblages. Following that, this volume’s central chapters explore the challenges of recognizing and defining species from fossil specimens, and show how with careful interpretation and a clear species concept, fossil species may be sufficiently robust for meaningful paleobiological analyses. Tempo and mode of speciation over time are also explored, exhibiting how the concept of species, if more refined, can reveal enormous amounts about the interplay between species origins and extinction and local and global climate change.

Author: Frank Springer
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Category : Crinoidea
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178

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Author: New York State Museum
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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 802

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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1026

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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178

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