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Systematics, ecology, and the biodiversity crisis
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ISBN: 0231075286 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

The triumph of evolution : and the failure of creationism
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ISBN: 0716736381 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York W.H. Freeman


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Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought
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ISBN: 0195055748 9780195055740 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press,

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Time frames : the evolution of punctuated equilibra /Niles Eldredge
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ISBN: 0691024359 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Evolution --- Evolution.


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Time Frames
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ISBN: 1400860296 9781400860296 1322018545 9781322018546 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought--Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which one species gradually modifies itself into a new one, as Darwin believed, why are there so many missing links in the fossil records? Two eminent scientists, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, startled the world by challenging Darwin's cherished beliefs proposing instead that once a species has evolved it rarely undergoes change, and that the evolution of new species occurs only periodically, in relatively rapid spurts. In Time Frames Niles Eldredge explains how his own work with trilobite fossils led him to this unexpected conclusion, and describes the fascinating development of the new theory of punctuated equilibria.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Eternal Ephemera
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ISBN: 0231153171 023152675X 9780231526753 9780231153164 0231153163 9780231153171 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, NY

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All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species-interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"-are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral beings, revitalizing evolutionary science with their own, more resilient findings. Eldredge begins in France with the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who in 1801 first framed the overarching question about the emergence of new species. The Italian geologist Giambattista Brocchi followed, bringing in geology and paleontology to expand the question. In 1825, at the University of Edinburgh, Robert Grant and Robert Jameson introduced the astounding ideas formulated by Lamarck and Brocchi to a young medical student named Charles Darwin. Who can doubt that Darwin left for his voyage on the Beagle in 1831 filled with thoughts about these daring new explanations for the "transmutation" of species. Eldredge revisits Darwin's early insights into evolution in South America and his later synthesis of knowledge into a theory of the origin of species. He then considers the ideas of more recent evolutionary thinkers, such as George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the young and brash Niles Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould, who set science afire with their concept of punctuated equilibria. Filled with insights into evolutionary biology and told with a rich affection for the scientific arena, this book celebrates the organic, vital relationship between scientific thinking and its subjects.

Reinventing Darwin : the great evolutionary debate
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ISBN: 1857995082 9781857995084 Year: 1996 Publisher: London: Phoenix,

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Life on earth : an encyclopedia of biodiversity, ecology, and evolution
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ISBN: 157607286X 9781576072868 Year: 2002 Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio,

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The monkey business : a scientist looks at creationism.
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ISBN: 0671531417 Year: 1982 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Washington square press,

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