Shaking the tree : readings from Nature in the history of life

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Shaking the tree : readings from Nature in the history of life

edited by Henry Gee

University of Chicago Press, c2000

  • cloth
  • paper

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Nature (London, England)

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Reprints of articles originally published from 1991 to 1997

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Punctuated equilibrium comes of age / Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge
  • The major evolutionary transitions / Eörs Szathmáry, John Maynard Smith
  • The powers and pitfalls of parsimony / Caro-Beth Stewart
  • Homeotic genes and the evolution of arthropods and chordates / Sean B. Carroll
  • A common plan for dorsoventral patterning in bilateria / E.M. De Robertis, Yoshiki Sasai
  • Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs / Neil Shubin, Cliff Tabin, Sean Carroll
  • The fossil record and the early evolution of the metazoa / S. Conway Morris
  • Latest proterozoic stratigraphy and earth history / Andrew H. Knoll, Malcolm R. Walter
  • The early development of terrestrial ecosystems / William A. Shear
  • The permo-triassic extinction / Douglas H. Erwin
  • The origin and early evolution of plants on land / Paul Kenrick, Peter Crane
  • The origin and early diversification of angiosperms / Peter R. Crane, Else Marie Friis, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen
  • Agnathans and the origins of jawed vertebrates / Peter Forey, Philippe Janvier
  • The origin and early diversification of tetrapods / Per E. Ahlberg, Andrew R. Milner
  • The first 85 million years of avian evolution / Luis M. Chiappe
  • Mammalian phylogeny: shaking the tree / Michael J. Novacek
  • Primate origins: plugging the gaps / Robert D. Martin
  • Evolution and environment in the hominoidea / Peter Andrews
  • Origin and evolution of the genus Homo / Bernard Wood

Details

  • NCID
    BA82799446
  • ISBN
    • 0226284964
    • 0226284972
  • LCCN
    99049796
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 411 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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