Time Frames (eBook)

The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria

Niles Eldredge (Autor)

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2014
242 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6029-6 (ISBN)

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Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought--Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which one species gradually modifies itself into a new one, as Darwin believed, why are there so many missing links in the fossil records? Two eminent scientists, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, startled the world by challenging Darwin's cherished beliefs proposing instead that once a species has evolved it rarely undergoes change, and that the evolution of new species occurs only periodically, in relatively rapid spurts. In Time Frames Niles Eldredge explains how his own work with trilobite fossils led him to this unexpected conclusion, and describes the fascinating development of the new theory of punctuated equilibria.Originally published in 1989.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
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: abiogenesis • adaptive Radiation • allopatric speciation • anatomy • Arthropod eye • Binomial nomenclature • biologist • Biology • Calcite • character displacement • Charles Darwin • Charles Lyell • common descent • Creationism • Creation Science • Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event • Darwinism • Devonian • Echinoderm • Ecology • Emergence • E. O. Wilson • Ernst Mayr • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary progress • extinction event • Future Evolution • Gene Flow • genetic drift • Genetics and the Origin of Species • geologist • gradualism • Gregor Mendel • heredity • hominidae • Homo • Homo erectus • Homo sapiens • horseshoe crab • Human Evolution • Ian Tattersall • introgression • Invertebrate • J. B. S. Haldane • Klipspringer • komodo dragon • leopard frog • Local extinction • Longevity • Louis Agassiz • macroevolution • Moritz Wagner • mutual exclusion • Natural selection • Neontology • Objections to evolution • On the Origin of Species • organism • Ornithology • Orthogenesis • Paleoanthropology • paleontology • paleozoic • Paranthropus • Phacops • Phacops rana • Phyletic gradualism • Pseudoextinction • Punctuated equilibrium • quantum evolution • Rate of evolution • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Rhinoceros • Richard Goldschmidt • Richard Leakey • Ronald Fisher • Saltation (biology) • sedimentary rock • Social Darwinism • Sociocultural evolution • special creation • Speciation • species • Stephen Jay Gould • Synonym (taxonomy) • Tempo and Mode in Evolution • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • the logic of scientific discovery • Theodosius Dobzhansky • Thomas Henry Huxley • Transitional fossil • Transmutation of species • Trilobite • Ungulate • Uniformitarianism • Vladimir Nabokov • Walter Alvarez • Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6029-6 / 1400860296
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6029-6 / 9781400860296