Title: Patterns and processes in the history of life : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Patterns and Processes in the History of Life, Berlin 1985, June 16-21 /
Authors: Raup, David M.; Jablonski, David, 1953-
Publisher: Springer-Verlag,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Biological Evolution; Paleontology; Evolution Congresses; Paleontology Congresses; Evolution (Biology) Congresses
Contents: The nature of the fossil record: a biological perspective / D. Jablonski, S.J. Gould, and D.M. Raup -- Natural selection and fitness, adaptation and constraint / S.C. Stearns -- Directions in the history of life: group report / D.B. Wake, rapporteur; E.F. Connor, A.J. de Ricqles, J. Dzik, D.C. Fisher, S.J. Gould, M. LaBarbera, D.A. Meeter, V. Mosbrugger, W.-E. Reif, R.M. Rieger, A. Seilacher, G.P. Wagner -- The evolution and ecology of body size / M. LaBarbera -- Progress in organismal design / D.C. Fisher -- Time series analysis of the fossil record / E.F. Connor -- The systems approach: an interface between developmental and population genetic aspects of evolution / G.P. Wagner -- Organismic evolution: the interaction of microevolutionary and macroevolutionary processes: group report / J.S. Levinton, rapporteur; K. Bandel, B. Charlesworth, G. Muller, W. Nagl, B. Runnegar, R.K. Selander, S.C. Stearns, J.R.G. Turner, A.J. Urbanek, J.W. Valentine -- The genetics of adaptive radiation: a neo-Darwinian theory of punctuational evolution / J.R.G. Turner -- Fossil record of the origin of Bauplane and its implications / J.W. Valentine -- Molecular phylogeny / W. Nagl -- Causes and consequences of extinction: group report / K.W. Flessa, rapporteur; H.K. Erben, A. Hallam, K.J. Hsu, H.M. Hussner, D. Jablonski, D.M. Raup, J.J. Sepkoski, Jr., M.E. Soule, W. Sousa, W. Stinnesbeck, G.J. Vermeij -- The proximate causes of extinction / D. Simberloff -- Phanerozoic overview of mass extinction / J.J. Sepkoski, Jr. -- Environmental changes in times of biotic crisis / K.J. Hsu -- Evolutionary consequences of mass extinctions / D. Jablonski -- The neontologico-paleontological interface of community evolution: how do the pieces in the kaleidoscopic biosphere move?: group report / O. Jarvinen, rapporteur; C. Babin, R.K. Bambach, E. Flugel, F.T. Fursich, D.J. Futayma, K.J. Niklas, A.L. Panchen, D. Simberloff, A.J. Underwood, K.F. Weidich -- What is a community? / A.J. Underwood -- Evolution and coevolution in communities / D.J. Futayma -- Large-scale changes in animal and plant terrestrial communities / K.J. Niklas -- Phanerozoic marine communities / R.K Bambach.