Time Frames : : The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria / / Niles Eldredge.
Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought--Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which one species gradually modifies itself into a new one, as Darwin believed, why are there so many mis...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1001 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1. Evolution Nowadays
- 2. Ancient Seas and Evolutionary Fantasies
- 3. At Sea in the American Midwest
- 4. The Emergence of Punctuated Equilibria: Speciation and Evolutionary Change in Ancient Seas
- 5. Paradox Found: Adaptation and Macroevolution
- 6. Paradox Lost: Species at Play in the Evolutionary Game
- 7. Where to? What Next?
- APPENDIX: Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX