Basic questions in paleontology

University of Chicago Press

1993

xviii, 467 p., [16] p. of plates

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-434) and index

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1. The Nature, Task, and Place of Paleontology. Definition of Terms, Goals, and Methods. Relationship to Biology: Implications for Evolution. Relationship to Geology and the Humanities -- 2. Basic Questions in Geologic Time. The Basis for Measuring Time and Determining Age. A Survey of the Temporal Distribution of Plant and Animal Phyla. Some Particular Questions Concerning the Paleontological Classification of Time -- 3. Basic Questions in Organic Evolution. The Authenticity of the Fossil Record. Patterns in Evolution -- 4. Basic Questions in Biological Systematics. The Nature and Task of Systematics. The Nature of Taxonomic Categories. Natural and Artificial Systematics. Morphological and Phylogenetic Systematics. On Idealistic Morphology. The Systematics of Parallel Evolutionary Lineages

Originally published in Germany in 1950, and now translated into English for the first time, this book has both historical importance and contemporary relevance as Schindewolf's ideas, considered revolutionary in his day, directly address many current debates within evolutionary biology

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