One of the twentieth centuryâ s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague, mentor, and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gouldâ s acclaimed essays on natural history.
One of the twentieth centuryâ s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague, mentor, and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gouldâ s acclaimed essays on natural history.
Bruce S. Lieberman is Dean's Professor of Evolutionary Biology and senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas, where he also directs the Paleontological Institute and is editor in chief of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. His research focuses on patterns and processes of evolution and extinction using the fossil record. Niles Eldredge is an invertebrate paleontologist, an evolutionary biologist, and an emeritus curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History. He discovered punctuated equilibria with Stephen Jay Gould and played a leading role in developing the field of macroevolution. His work has also emphasized understanding the biodiversity crisis and documenting Darwin's discovery of natural selection and evolution.
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Preface 1. The Three Musketeers of Macroevolution: Does Anyone Get to Be D'Artagnan? 2. Asleep at the Switch: Paleontological Life Lessons, Stasis, and the Genius of Yogi Berra 3. Survival of the Laziest: Does Evolution Permit Naps? 4. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Times Square: Gould, Kant, and Super Dave 5. Expanding Evolution: Organisms and Species, the Soma, and the Technosphere 6. Declining Volatility: A General Evolutionary Principle and Its Relevance to Fossils, Stocks, and Stars 7. Paleo Personas: Musings on a Soviet Cephalopod, Norman Newell, and Mass Extinctions 8. Stardust Memories: Reading Evolution and Extinction in the Stars 9. Is Eternal Sex Necessary? Or, What Are These Coywolves Doing in My Backyard? 10. Darwin in the Galápagos: Running the Beagle Tape Backward 11. Of Cultural Nationalism, Hamlet, and the Cloaca Universalis: Why Citation Is the Best Policy 12. When Is a Raptor a Parrot? The Curious Case of the American Kestrel 13. What's Your Favorite Trilobite? Walter Winchell Wouldn't Have Cared Acknowledgments Notes References Index
Preface 1. The Three Musketeers of Macroevolution: Does Anyone Get to Be D'Artagnan? 2. Asleep at the Switch: Paleontological Life Lessons, Stasis, and the Genius of Yogi Berra 3. Survival of the Laziest: Does Evolution Permit Naps? 4. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Times Square: Gould, Kant, and Super Dave 5. Expanding Evolution: Organisms and Species, the Soma, and the Technosphere 6. Declining Volatility: A General Evolutionary Principle and Its Relevance to Fossils, Stocks, and Stars 7. Paleo Personas: Musings on a Soviet Cephalopod, Norman Newell, and Mass Extinctions 8. Stardust Memories: Reading Evolution and Extinction in the Stars 9. Is Eternal Sex Necessary? Or, What Are These Coywolves Doing in My Backyard? 10. Darwin in the Galápagos: Running the Beagle Tape Backward 11. Of Cultural Nationalism, Hamlet, and the Cloaca Universalis: Why Citation Is the Best Policy 12. When Is a Raptor a Parrot? The Curious Case of the American Kestrel 13. What's Your Favorite Trilobite? Walter Winchell Wouldn't Have Cared Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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