Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

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A scholarly history of the development of palaeobiology as an evolutionary discipline, tracing its emergence from traditional palaeontology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on extensive archival research, Sepkoski examines the contributions of influential palaeontologists and the growing importance of quantitative methods, computer technology and large fossil databases. Particular attention is given to punctuated equilibrium, mass extinctions and the development of macroevolutionary theory, showing how the study of the fossil record became central to modern evolutionary biology.

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8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in d/w.