Deep time : paleobiology's perspective : a special volume commemorating the 25th anniversary of the journal Paleobiology / edited by Douglas H. Erwin and Scott L. Wing.

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Other Authors: Erwin, Douglas H., 1958-, Wing, Scott L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : Paleontological Society, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Directionality in the history of life: diffusion from left wall or repeated scaling of the right? / Andrew H. Knoll and Richard K. Bambach
  • Micro- and macroevolution: scale and hierarchy in evolutionary biology and paleobiology / David Jablonski
  • Conversations about Phanerozoic global diversity / Arnold I. Miller
  • Origination and extinction components of taxonomic diversity: general problems / Mike Foote
  • Taphonomy and paleobiology / Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Susan M. Kidwel, and Rober A. Gastaldo
  • The quality of the fossil record: a sequence stratigraphic perspective / Steven M. Holland
  • the biomoleculuar paleontology of continental fossils / Derek E.G. Briggs, Richard P. Evershed, and Matthew J. Lockheart
  • Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary / Stephen T. Jackson and Jonathan T. Overpeck
  • Life in the last few million years / Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Kenneth G. Johnson
  • Pelagic species diversity, biogeography, and evolution / Richard D. Norris
  • Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution / John Alroy, Paul L. Koch, and James C. Zachos
  • Modeling fossil plant form-function relationships: a critique / Karl J. Niklas
  • Invention by evolution: functional analysis of paleobiology / Roy E. Plotnick and Tomasz K. Baumiller
  • Fossils, genes, and the origin of novelty / Neil H. Shubin and Charles R. Marshall
  • Phylogenetic analyses and the fossil record: tests and inferences, hypothesis and models / Peter J. Wagner.