Systematics And The Fossil Record
Download Systematics And The Fossil Record full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Systematics And The Fossil Record ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Systematics and the Fossil Record
Author | : Andrew B. Smith |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781444313901 |
Download Systematics and the Fossil Record Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This new text sets out to establish the key role played by systematics in deciphering patterns of evolution from the fossil record. It begins by considering the nature of the species in the fossil record and then outlines recent advances in the methodology used to establish phylogenetics relationships, stressing why fossil evidence can be crucial. The way species are grouped into higher taxa, and how this affects their utility in evolutionary studies is also discussed. Because the fossil record abounds with sampling and preservational biases, the book emphasizes that observed patterns can rarely be taken at face value. It is argued that evolutionary trees, constructed from combining phylogenetic and biostratigraphic data, provide the best approach for investigating patterns of evolution through geologic time. The only integrated text covering the study of evolutionary patterns from a phylogenetic stance.
The Biology of Crustacea
Author | : Bozzano G Luisa |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1982-09-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780323139250 |
Download The Biology of Crustacea Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Biology of Crustacea
Systematics the Fossil Record and Biogeography
Author | : Lawrence G. Abele |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0121064018 |
Download Systematics the Fossil Record and Biogeography Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Fossils Phylogeny and Form
Author | : Jonathan M. Adrain,Gregory D. Edgecombe,Bruce S. Lieberman |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781461505716 |
Download Fossils Phylogeny and Form Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Phylogenetic analysis and morphometrics have been developed by biologists into rigorous analytic tools for testing hypotheses about the relationships between groups of species. This book applies these tools to paleontological data. The fossil record is our one true chronicle of the history of life, preserving a set of macroevolutionary patterns; thus various hypotheses about evolutionary processes can be tested in the fossil record using phylogentic analysis and morphometrics. The first book of its type, Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form will be useful in evolutionary biology, paleontology, systematics, evolutionary development, theoretical biology, biogeography, and zoology. It will also provide a practical, researcher-friendly gateway into computer-based phylogenetics and morphometrics.
Telling the Evolutionary Time
Author | : Philip C J Donoghue,M. Paul Smith |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780203642528 |
Download Telling the Evolutionary Time Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Determining the precise timing for the evolutionary origin of groups of organisms has become increasingly important as scientists from diverse disciplines attempt to examine rates of anatomical or molecular evolution and correlate intrinsic biological events to extrinsic environmental events. Molecular clock analyses indicate that many major groups
Fossil Horses
Author | : Bruce J. MacFadden |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1994-06-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521477085 |
Download Fossil Horses Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The horse has frequently been used as a classic example of long-term evolution because it possesses an extensive fossil record. This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from perspectives such as biology, geology, paleontology.
Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record
Author | : Warren D. Allmon,Margaret M. Yacobucci |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226377582 |
Download Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular, is littered with qualifiers and cautions about applying the term to the fossil record or equating such species with those recognized among living organisms. In Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record, experts in the field examine how they conceive of species of fossil animals and consider the implications these different approaches have for thinking about species in the context of macroevolution. After outlining views of the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary disciplines and detailing the development within paleobiology of quantitative methods for documenting and analyzing variation within fossil assemblages, contributors explore the challenges of recognizing and defining species from fossil specimens—and offer potential solutions. Addressing both the tempo and mode of speciation over time, they show how with careful interpretation and a clear species concept, fossil species may be sufficiently robust for meaningful paleobiological analyses. Indeed, they demonstrate that the species concept, if more refined, could unearth a wealth of information about the interplay between species origins and extinctions, between local and global climate change, and greatly deepen our understanding of the evolution of life.
Why and How
Author | : George Gaylord Simpson |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781483189611 |
Download Why and How Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Why and How: Some Problems and Methods in Historical Biology discusses an overall approach to the study of fossils combined with paleontology. This book is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 consists of a few examples of studies of the fossil record, focusing on its adequacy, and ways of looking at and representing some of its aspects. The most basic aspects of study of the fossil record such as the examination, description, and illustration of the morphology of fossils are described in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 focuses on paleoecology and faunal analysis, while Chapter 4 emphasizes some of the aspects of phylogenetic principles and eclectic taxonomic theory. The essential apparatus for zoological studies that include biometrical statistics both in concepts and in measures are deliberated in Chapter 5. The last chapter deliberates the geographic distribution of organisms. This publication is a good source for paleontologists and biologists interested in historical biology.