Macroevolution

Diversity, Disparity, Contingency: Essays in Honor of Stephen Jay Gould

Elisabeth S. Vrba, Niles Eldredge

210 pages, parution le 03/10/2005

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Résumé

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was one of the most prominent scientists of recent decades, a man whose expertise ranged from paleontology to evolutionary theory and the history of science. He was an unabashedly popular figure, attracting standing-room-only audiences to his lectures at Harvard and around the world. In his monthly Natural History columns and innumerable articles and books, Gould made evolution interesting in a way that hardly anyone--since the time of Darwin and Huxley--had been able to do.

In Macroevolution, major themes of Gould's work are reassessed in light of new research by his contemporaries. The book includes original essays by such noted scholars as Niles Eldredge, Richard Fortey, and Lynn Margulis on heterochrony, disparity, and macroevolution, stasis and the dynamics of evolutionary change, and mass extinctions. Fourteen essays provide an expansive overview of contemporary evolutionary theory. Macroevolution is a unique tribute to Gould that will be a valuable educational resource for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the work of this scientific provocateur.

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Generating Disparity
- Disparity, adaptation, exaptation, bookkeeping, and contingency at the genome level
- Heterochrony, disparity, and macroevolution
- Whale barnacles : exaptational access to a forbidden paradise
- Tempo and mode of early animal evolution : inferences from rocks, hox, and molecular clocks
Generating Diversity
- The competitive Darwin
- Key innovations, convergence, and success : macroevolutionary lessons from plant phylogeny
- Wonderful strife : systematics, stem groups, and the phylogenetic signal of the Cambrian radiation
- Stephen Jay Gould on species selection : 30 years of insight
- The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography and Stephen Jay Gould
Macroevolutionary Patterns within and Among Clades
- The dynamics of evolutionary stasis
- The evolution of complexity without natural selection, a possible large-scale trend of the fourth kind
- Mass turnover and heterochrony events in response to physical change
- "Imperfections and oddities" in the origin of the nucleus
- Mass extinctions and macroevolution

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Paleontological Society
Auteur(s)	Elisabeth S. Vrba, Niles Eldredge
Parution	03/10/2005
Nb. de pages	210
Format	17,5 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	460g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781891276491