Evolutionary paleobiology : in honor of James W. Valentine / edited by David Jablonski, Douglas H. Erwin, and Jere H. Lipps.

Format Book
Publication InfoChicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1996.
Descriptionvii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorValentine, James W.
Other author/creatorJablonski, David, 1953-
Other author/creatorErwin, Douglas H., 1958-
Other author/creatorLipps, Jere H., 1939-
Contents James W. Valentine : an appreciation / Douglas H. Erwin, David Jablonski, and Jere H. Lipps -- Molecular paleogenetics : the evolutionary history of plasmodium and related protists / Ananias A. Escalante and Francisco J. Ayala -- Hierarchies in macroevolution / Niles Eldredge -- Models of morphological diversification / Mike Foote -- The shifting balance of natural communities? / Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, and John M. Pandolfi -- Do communities evolve? : a major question in evolutionary paleoecology / Richard K. Bambach and J. Bret Bennington -- Reading the chronicle of quaternary temperate rocky shore faunas / David R. Lindberg and Jere H. Lipps -- On the nonprevalence of competitive replacement in the evolution of tetrapods / Michael J. Benton -- Competition in macroevolution : the double wedge revisited / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. -- Body size and macroevolution / David Jablonski -- Evolution of the fossil record : thickness trends in marine skeletal accumulations and their implications / Susan M. Kidwell and Patrick J. Brenchley -- Locomotion and respiration in aquatic air-breathing vertebrates / Richard Cowen -- Marine biological diversity : Muricid gastropods as a case study / Geerat J. Vermeij -- The geography of evolutionary turnover : a global analysis of extant bivalves / Karl W. Flessa and David Jablonski -- Understanding biotic recoveries : extinction, survival, and preservation during the End-Permian mass extinction / Douglas H. Erwin -- Extinction models / David M. Raup -- On telling, altering, and enriching stories : an unpublished Darwin letter from a key incident in his later life / Stephen Jay Gould.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 96022166
ISBN0226389111 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226389138 (pbk. : alk. paper)