Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution: 2 (Cambridge Paleobiology Series, Series Number 2) - Softcover

Carroll, Robert Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052147809X ISBN 13: 9780521478090

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This new undergraduate text provides an integrated view of the forces that influence the patterns and rates of vertebrate evolution.

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Review

'It is in my view the most important book in vertebrate evolution since Simpson's Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944), because of what it offers as a summary, an integration, and above all a prospectus for vertebrate biologists of a new synthesis that is showing all signs of a very healthy infancy. Our next generation of scientists would do well to train themselves as Carroll has done in order to fulfill his vision of what integrative vertebrate biology can become.' Kevin Padian Science

'Robert Carroll has broken new ground. He views the fossil record with the eyes of a biologist and a geologist ... Not since 1953, when George Gaylord Simpson published Major Features of Evolution, has there been such a well-founded overview of vertebrate fossils, their distribution in time and space, relationships with other organisms and with the environment.' Douglas Palmer New Scientist

'This book is a milestone and is highly recommended. General readers: undergraduate through faculty.' F. S. Szaley, Choice

'... an intellectual tour de force ... Carroll's overview is welcome, well organised, affordable in paperback format and will prove a very useful backdrop to undergraduate courses on general evolution of vertebrate history.' David Norman, University of Cambridge

'Carroll's overview is welcome, well organised, affordable in paperback format and will prove a very useful backdrop to undergraduate courses on general evolution or vertebrate history.' David Norman, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Book Description

This new undergraduate text provides an integrated view of the forces that influence the patterns and rates of vertebrate evolution. The evolutionary roles of behaviour, development, continental drift, and mass extinctions are compared with the importance of variation and natural selection that were emphasised by Darwin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052147809X
• ISBN 13: 9780521478090
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464