Experimental approaches to understanding fossil organisms : lessons from the living /
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Imprint: | Dordrecht : Springer, 2014. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in Geobiology, 0275-0120 ; 41 Topics in geobiology ; 41. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11084983 |
Summary: | Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Creative, experimental and interdisciplinary treatments of such ancient-Earth analogs form the basis of Lessons from the Living. This volume unites a diverse range of expert paleontologists, neontologists and geologists presenting case studies that cover a spectrum of topics, including functional morphology, taphonomy, environments and organism-substrate interactions. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789401787215 9401787212 9401787204 9789401787208 |
ISSN: | 0275-0120 ; |