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Book SynopsisHere twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availab
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction. Diversity As Data, pg. 1*Chapter 1. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Clade Diversity Diagrams, pg. 11*Chapter 2. Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights, pg. 41*Chapter 3. Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification: An Analysis at the Species Level, pg. 97*Chapter 4. Real and Apparent Trends in Species Richness Through Time, pg. 129*Chapter 5. Evolutionary Faunas and the Distribution of Paleozoic Marine Communities in Space and Time, pg. 153*Chapter 6. Classes and Adaptive Variety: The Ecology of Diversification in Marine Faunas Through the Phanerozoic, pg. 191*Chapter 7. Phanerozoic Tiering in Suspension-Feeding Communities on Soft Substrata: Implications for Diversity, pg. 255*Chapter 8. Nonequilibrium Model of Diversification: Faunal Turnover Dynamics, pg. 277*Chapter 9. Diversification Functions and the Rate of Taxonomic Evolution, pg. 311*Chapter 10. Marine Regressions and Mass Extinctions: A Test Using the Modern Biota, pg. 335*Chapter 11. Modeling the Biogeographic Regulation of Evolutionary Rates, pg. 355*Chapter 12. Testing for Adaptive Radiation: The Ptychaspid (Trilobita) Biomere of the Late Cambrian, pg. 379*Chapter 13. Evolutionary Patterns Of Jurassic And Cretaceous Ammonites: An Analysis Of Clade Shape, pg. 399*Chapter 14. Biotic Diversity and Clade Diversity, pg. 419*Concluding Remark, pg. 425*Author Index, pg. 427*Subject Index, pg. 437
