Evolution
Subtitle: investigating the evidence
By: conveners and volume editors, Dale A. Springer, Judith G. Scotchmoor.
Contributors: Springer, Dale A.; Scotchmoor, Judy.; Paleontological Society.; Geological Society of America. Meeting.
Series: Paleontological Society special publications ;; v. 9; Special publication (Paleontological Society) ;; no. 9.
Publisher: Paleontological Society
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Pittsburgh, PA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses.; Paleontology -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 24, 1999."
Table of contents: title: Preface / Peter R. Crane; title: Evolution: investigating the evidence-an introduction / Dale A. Springer and Judy Scotchmoor; title: This is Science! / Jere H. Lipps; title: The meaning of evolution / Richard Bambach; title: The age of things found in the earth / Frank K. McKinney; title: The nature of the fossil record / Susan M. Kidwell and J. John Sepkoski, Jr.; title: Biological classification-organizing organisms / Claus Hedegaard; title: Evolution and systematics / Sandra J. Carlson; title: Missing links in the history of life / Charles R. Marshall; title: Perceiving change with continuity / Warren D. Allmon; title: Evolution caught in the act: evidence from microfossil morphology / Stephen J. Culver; title: Major patterns in botanical diversity / Peter R. Crane; title: Patterns of change in fossil invertebrates / Warren D. Allmon; title: Evolution at all scales in the vertebrate fossil record / John P. Hunter; title: How did it all begin: the self-assembly of organic molecules and the origin of cellular life / David W. Deamer; title: Molecules and evolutionary history / Allen G. Collins; title: Origination, evolutionary radiation, and extinction in the modern world: the story of partulid tree snails / Carole S. Hickman; title: Plate tectonics and evolution / David Jablonski; title: Natural selection and evolutionary change / Kevin Padian; title: Long/short term influences on change / Kaustuv Roy; title: Rates of evolution / Steven M. Stanley; title: The evolution of biodiversity: richness and disparity / James W. Valentine; title: Creating models for interpreting data / Roy E. Plotnick; title: Science, religion, and evolution / Eugenie C. Scott; title: Religious faith and the geological sciences / Chaim Benjamini.