| The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology Contributor(s): Sepkoski, David (Editor), Ruse, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 022627571X ISBN-13: 9780226275710 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $42.57 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Paleontology - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution - Science | Earth Sciences - General |
| Dewey: 560 |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6" W x 9" (1.69 lbs) 568 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sepkoski, David: - David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, most recently Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline, also published by the University of Chicago Press. |