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
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