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Edited by Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, and Frank K. McKinney

Evolutionary Patterns

Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record

344 pages, 54 halftones, 62 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2001

Cloth $108.00

ISBN: 9780226389301   Published August 2001

Paper $39.00

ISBN: 9780226389318   Published August 2001

Preface

Part 1. Modes of Development, Hierarchies of Morphological
Organization, and the Adaptive Significance of Colony Form
1 Growth by Intussusception in Hydractiniid Hydroids
2 Parts and Integration: Consequences of Hierarchy
3 Refuges Revisited: Enemies versus Flow and Feeding as
Determinants of Sessile Animal Distribution and Form

Part 2. Recognition of Species, and the Tempo of
Speciation and Extinction
4 Recognizing Coral Species Present and Past
5 Geologically Sudden Extinction of Two Widespread
Late Pleistocene Caribbean Reef Corals
6 Linking Macroevolutionary Pattern and
Developmental Process in Marginellid Gastropods
7 The Interrelationship of Speciation and
Punctuated Equilibrium

Part 3. Macroevolutionary Patterns and Trends
8 On the Ends of the Taxon Range Problem
9 Evolutionary Rates and the Age Distribution of
Living and Extinct Taxa
10 Contrasting Patterns in Rare and Abundant Species
during Evolutionary Turnover
11 Asexual Propagation in Cheilostome Bryozoa:
Evolutionary Trends in a Major Groups of
Colonial Animals
12 Macroevolutionary Trends: Perception Depends on
the Measure Used

List of Contributors
Index
Subjects



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