Paleontology - Turner Derek
Paleontology - Turner Derek In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. How is…
Specifikacia Paleontology - Turner Derek
Paleontology - Turner Derek
In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. How is macroevolution related to evolutionary changes within populations? Many of those questions have a philosophical dimension.
How much can we know about the causes of evolutionary trends? Is evolutionary history contingent? How do paleontologists read the patterns in the fossil record to learn about the underlying evolutionary processes?
Derek Turner explores these and other questions, introducing the reader to exciting recent work in the philosophy of paleontology and to theoretical issues including punctuated equilibria and species selection. He also critically examines some of the major accomplishments and arguments of paleontologists of the last 40