The paleobiological revolution : essays on the growth of modern paleontology / edited by David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sepkoski, David, 1972-

Ruse, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolutionary paleobiology.

Paleobiology.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (582 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology.

Contents:

Introduction : paleontology at the high table / David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse

The emergence of paleobiology / David Sepkoski

The fossil record : biological or geological signal? / Michael J. Benton

Biogeography and evolution in the early Paleozoic / Richard A. Fortey

The discovery of conodont anatomy and its importance for understanding the early history of vertebrates / Richard J. Aldridge and Derek E.G. Briggs

Emergence of Precambrian paleobiology : a new field of science / J. William Schopf

Dinosaurs at the table / John R. Horner

Ladders, bushes, punctuations, and clades : hominid paleobiology in the late twentieth century / Tim D. White

Punctuated equilibria and speciation : what does it mean to be a Darwinian? / Patricia Princehouse

Molecular evolution vis-a-vis paleontology / Francisco J. Ayala

Beyond detective work : empirical testing in paleontology / Derek Turner

Taxic paleobiology and the pursuit of a unified evolutionary theory / Todd A. Grantham

Ideas in dinosaur paleontology : resonating to social and political context / David E. Fastovsky

Reg Sprigg and the discovery of the Ediacara fauna in South Australia : its approach to the high table / Susan Turner and David Oldroyd

The morphological tradition in German paleontology : Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schindewolf / Manfred D. Laubichler and Karl J. Niklas

"Radical" or "conservative'? : the origin and early reception of punctuated equilibrium / David Sepkoski

The shape of evolution : the MBL model and clade shape / John Huss

Ritual patricide : why Stephen Jay Gould assassinated George Gaylord Simpson / Joe Cain

The consensus that changed the paleobiological world / Arnold I. Miller

The infusion of biology into paleontological research / James W. Valentine

From empirical paleoecology to evolutionary paleobiology : a personal journey / Richard Bambach

Intellectual evolution across an academic landscape / Rebecca Z. German

The problem of punctuational speciation and trends in the fossil record / Anthony Hallam

Punctuated equilibrium versus community evolution / Arthur J. Boucot

An interview with David M. Raup / edited by David Sepkoski and David M. Raup

Paleontology in the twenty-first century / David Jablonski

Punctuations and paradigms : has paleobiology been through a paradigm shift? / Michael Ruse.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426902

9781282426900

1282426907

9780226748597

0226748596

OCLC:

489203714