Evolutionary patterns
Subtitle: growth, form, and tempo in the fossil record in honor of Allan Cheetham
By: edited by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, and Frank K. McKinney
Contributors: Cheetham, Alan H; Jackson, Jeremy B. C., 1942-; Lidgard, Scott; McKinney, Frank K.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Evolutionary paleobiology; Paleoecology; Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Modes of development, hierarchies of morphological organization, and the adaptive significance of colony form. Growth by intussusception in hydractiniid hydroids / Leo W. Buss. Parts and integration: consequences of hierarchy / Daniel W. McShea. Refuges revisited: enemies versus flow and feeding as determinants of sessile animal distribution and form / Beth Okamura, Jean-Georges Harmelin, and Jeremy B.C. Jackson; title: Recognition of species, and the tempo of speciation and extinction. Recognizing coral species present and past / Nancy Knowlton and Ann F. Budd. Geologically sudden extinction of two widespread late Pleistocene Caribbean reef corals / John M. Pandolfi, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, and Jörn Geister. Linking macroevolutionary pattern and developmental process in marginellid gastropods / Ross H. Nehm. The interrelationship of speciation and punctuated equilibrium / Stephen Jay Gould; title: Macroevolutionary patterns and trends. On the ends of the taxon range problem / Lee-Ann C. Hayek and Efstathia Bura. Evolutionary rates and the age distributions of living and extinct taxa / Mike Foote. Contrasting patterns in rare and abundant species during evolutionary turnover / Ann F. Budd and Kenneth G. Johnson. Asexual propagation in cheilostome Bryozoa: evolutionary trends in a major group of colonial animals / Eckart Håkansson and Erik Thomsen. Macroevolutionary trends: perception depends on the measure used / Frank K. McKinney, Scott Lidgard, and Paul D. Taylor