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With advances in molecular and evolutionary biology, one could almost wonder why we need the fossil record. Molecular sequence data can resolve taxanomic relationships, experiments with fruit flies demonstrate evolution and development in real time, and field studies of Galapagos finches have provided the strongest evidence for natural selection ever measured in the wild. What, then, can fossils teach us that living organisms cannot? This text demonstrates the rich variety of clues to evolution that can be gleaned from the fossil record. Contributors explore modes of development, the tempo of speciation and extinction, and macroevolutionary patterns and trends.

Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record

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Paperback / softback by Jeremy B. C. Jackson , Scott Lidgard

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With advances in molecular and evolutionary biology, one could almost wonder why we need the fossil record. Molecular sequence data... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/08/2001
    ISBN13: 9780226389318, 978-0226389318
    ISBN10: 0226389316

    Number of Pages: 344

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    With advances in molecular and evolutionary biology, one could almost wonder why we need the fossil record. Molecular sequence data can resolve taxanomic relationships, experiments with fruit flies demonstrate evolution and development in real time, and field studies of Galapagos finches have provided the strongest evidence for natural selection ever measured in the wild. What, then, can fossils teach us that living organisms cannot? This text demonstrates the rich variety of clues to evolution that can be gleaned from the fossil record. Contributors explore modes of development, the tempo of speciation and extinction, and macroevolutionary patterns and trends.

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