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
Hypothesis testing is not a straightforward matter in the fossil record and here, too interactions with biology can be extremely profitable. Quite simply, predictions regarding long-term consequences of processes observed in liv ing organisms can be tested directly using paleontological data if tho...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1986, 1986
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1986 |
| Series: | Life Sciences Research Report
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Table of Contents:
- The Nature of the Fossil Record: A Biological Perspective
- Natural Selection and Fitness, Adaptation and Constraint
- Directions in the History of Life Group Report
- The Evolution and Ecology of Body Size
- Progress in Organismal Design
- Time Series Analysis of the Fossil Record
- The Systems Approach: An Interface between Developmental and Population Genetic Aspects of Evolution
- Organismic Evolution: The Interaction of Microevolutionary and Macroevolutionary Processes Group Report
- The Genetics of Adaptive Radiation: A Neo-Darwinian Theory of Punctuational Evolution
- Fossil Record of the Origin of Baupläne and Its Implications
- Molecular Phylogeny
- Causes and Consequences of Extinction Group Report
- The Proximate Causes of Extinction
- Phanerozoic Overview of Mass Extinction
- Environmental Changes in Times of Biotic Crisis
- Evolutionary Consequences of Mass Extinctions
- The Neontologico-Paleontological Interface of Community Evolution: How Do the Pieces in the Kaleidoscopic Biosphere Move? Group Report
- What Is a Community?
- Evolution and Coevolution in Communities
- Large-scale Changes in Animal and Plant Terrestrial Communities
- Phanerozoic Marine Communities
- Appendix: Geological Time Scales
- List of Participants with Fields of Research
- Author Index