Mazon Creek Fossils

Science & Math

Nitecki, Matthew H.

Earth Sciences

Academic Pr

Coevolution

This volume unites nine essays illustrating the varying ways that coevolution may be defined and differentiated from adaptation and mutualism in theoretical and experimental work. The author's positions and findings reflect the diversity of current attitudes and approaches to coevolution.

Coevolution (Chicago Original Paperbacks)

Spring Systematics Symposium 1982 (Field Museum of Natural History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Chicago Pr

Extinctions

Death of species / David M. Raup - Patterns of extinction in the fossil record of vascular plants /Andrew H. Knoll - Marine mass extinctions / Stephen M. Stanley - Extinction in hominid evolution / Alan Walker - Catastrophic extinctions and late Pleistocene Blitzkrieg / Paul S. Martin - "Normal" extinctions of isolated populations / Jared M. Diamond - Mammalian extinction and biogeography in the southern Rocky Mountains / Bruce D. Patterson --Ecosystem decay of Amazon forest remnants / Thomas E. Lovejoy ... et al.

Evolution

The Evolution of Human Hunting

The successful early adaptations of man involve a complex interplay of biological and cultural factors. There is a rapidly growing number of paleontologists and paleoanthropologists who are concerned with hominid foraging and the evolution of hunting. New techniques of paleoanthropology and taphonomy, and new information on human remains are added to the traditional approaches to the study of past human hunting and other foraging behavior. There is also a resurgence of interest in the early peopling of the New World. The present book is the result of the Ninth Annual Spring Systematics 10, 1986, in the Symposium, on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held on May Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. We are grateful to the NSF (grant no. BNS 8519960) for partial financial support in arranging the symposium. In preparation of this volume we have received assistance from many people, particularly the reviewers of individual chapters; it is impossible to name them all. We must however single out Drs. Richard G. Klein and Glen H. Cole for their encouragement at various stages of preparation of the symposium and this volume, and for being a help to the anthropological knowledge. Zbigniew Jastrzebski assisted with the figures and Paul K. Johnson diligently typed the camera-ready copy, and patiently coordinated the endless book-making chores.

Politics & Social Sciences

Nitecki, Doris V.

Sociology

Springer

Receptaculitids are extinct high-level fossils that provide a window into the history of life. After the discovery and analysis of a deposit of phosphatized receptaculitids on the Baltic Sea island of Öland, the authors conclude that receptaculitids possess an attribute not found in any other group of organisms, living or fossil.

Receptaculitids: A Phylogenetic Debate on a Problematic Fossil Taxon

Mutvei, Harry

Biological Sciences

History and Evolution (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology)

The studies of evolutionary biology and of human history face the same kinds of problems and deal with the same processes. Both disciplines deal with similar questions in similar ways, but do the methods used produce comparable knowledge, and are the differences and similarities between these disciplines real? This book examines the philosophy of historical and evolutionary studies; the objectivity and meanings of human and evolutionary histories; the evolutionary approaches to and the anlysis of history, historical approaches, and utilization of evolution; the logic of historical and evolutionary thinking and explanations; the identification of similarities, differences, and common problems of evolutionary biology and history; and what constitutes the major historical and evolutionary events.

History and Evolution (Philosophy and Biology)

History

Americas

State University of New York Press

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