Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns (eBook)

Profiles in Macroevolution

J. Valentine (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
454 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5505-6 (ISBN)

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Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: adaptive Radiation • Agnatha • allopatric speciation • Ammonitida • Ammonoidea • autocorrelation • barnacle • biostratigraphy • Bivalvia • Brachiopod • Carboniferous • Carrying Capacity • Cenozoic • Cephalopod • Ceratitida • Charles Darwin • cladogram • conodont • Cretaceous • Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event • crinoid • Devonian • diagenesis • diversity index • Echinoderm • Ecology • endemism • Eosuchia • Eurypterid • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary fauna • extinction event • Fauna • flatworm • flightless bird • foraminifera • Gastropoda • genetic drift • Genus • Hallucigenia • hesperornis • Holocene • Hydrozoa • Incomplete Nature • instability • Intergradation • Invertebrate • Jurassic • Lagerstätte • Local extinction • Longevity • Loss of significance • macroevolution • Mammal • Merostomata • Mesozoic • Mesozoic marine revolution • Mollusca • Monoplacophora • mudstone • Nautilida • Nautiloid • Niche differentiation • Oceanic basin • Oncocerida • Ordovician • organism • Ostracod • paleobiology • paleontology • paleozoic • Permian • Permian–Triassic extinction event • phanerozoic • Phylogenetics • Phylum • Rarefaction (ecology) • Rate of evolution • Rhynchonellida • Rostroconchia • Rugosa • Scyphozoa • silurian • slime mold • Small population size • Speciation • Species richness • Spiralia • Spiriferida • Stenolaemata • Tabulata • Taxon • Taxonomy (biology) • Tempo and Mode in Evolution • Tetrapod • Triassic • Trilobite • tuatara • Vertebrate
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5505-5 / 1400855055
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5505-6 / 9781400855056