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Book SynopsisTable 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
