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Varying Form of Title: | Growth of paleobiology as an evolutionary discipline
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ISBN: | 9780226748580 0226748588 128012640X 9781280126406 9780226748559 0226748553
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-418) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin & rsquo;s day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontologists were often regarded as mere fossil collectors by many evolutionary biologists, their attempts to contribute to evolutionary theory ignored or regarded with scorn. In the 1950s, however, paleontologists began mounting a counter-movement that insisted on the valid, important, and original contribution of paleontology to evolutionary theory.
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Other form: | Print version: Sepkoski, David, 1972- Rereading the fossil record. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012 9780226748559
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Standard no.: | 9786613530264
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