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Fossils : the evolution and extinction of species / Niles Eldredge ; photography by Murray Alcosser ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould

Author
Eldredge, Niles
Published
New York : H.N. Abrams, 1991.
Physical Description
xx, 220 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Additional Creators
Alcosser, Murray, 1937-

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Contents
Adaptation. Chaos -- Apparent design -- Creationist answer -- Divine watch maker -- Charles Darwin -- Origin of species -- Pigeons -- Descent with modification -- Principle of population -- Nineteen million elephants -- Natural selection -- Convergence -- Birds, bats and pterosaurs -- Spectacular cases -- Origin of species. Gradual evolution -- Ph.D. thesis -- Punctuated equilibria -- Speciation -- Ernst Mayr and Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Species defined -- Stasis -- Trilobites -- Seventeen vs. eighteen lens -- Fragmentation of lineages -- Stability punctuated by change -- Human evolution. "Man's place in nature" -- The missing link -- Taung child -- the Leakeys -- Zinj -- "Lucy" -- Australopithecus, gracile and robust -- Homo habilis -- Stone tools -- Homo erectus -- Neanderthal -- Human pedigree -- Brain size -- Species selection -- Leaps and bounds -- Living fossils. An odd fish -- 70 million-year-old relatives -- Resemblance to forebears -- Extreme stability -- Horseshoe crabs -- Primitive specimen -- Little evolution in 450 million years -- Generalists -- Specialists -- Adaptive radiation -- Bizarre specialists -- Extinction. Death of dinosaurs -- Geological strata -- Six extinction events -- K-T boundary -- Iridium -- Meteors -- Planet "X" -- Extinction patterns -- Global cooling -- Habitat loss -- Troubled ecosystems -- Ice Age -- Enter Homo sapiens -- Hunting -- Agriculture -- Industrialization -- Seventh extinction event -- The current dilemma -- Macroevolution. Strange beasts -- Ancient whales -- Evolutionary rate -- Primitive bats -- Intermediate forms -- Jaw bones -- Archaeopteryx -- Large scale transformations -- Earliest fossils -- Complex life -- Cambrian proliferation -- Opportunity knocks -- Rats of the Mesozoic -- Evolution and extinction -- The clever ape -- Epilogue.
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ISBN
0810933055 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-215) and index.
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