Bringing Fossils To Life
An Introduction To Paleobiology
2nd Edition
Published on 8. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-07-366170-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first text to combine both paleontology and paleobiology. Traditional textbooks treat these separately, despite the recent trend to combine them in teaching. It bridges the gap between purely theoretical paleobiology and purely descriptive invertebrate paleontology books. The text is targeted at undergraduate geology and biology majors, with the emphasis on organisms, rather than dead objects to be described and catalogued. Current ideas from modern biology, ecology, population genetics, and many other concepts will be applied to the study of the fossil record.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1007 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-366170-4 (9780073661704)
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Content
The Fossil Record: A Window on the Past1 The Fossil Record2 Variation in Fossils3 Species and Speciation 4 Systematics5 Evolution6 Extinction7 Functional Morphology8 Paleoecology9 Biogeography 10 BiostratigraphyLife of the Past and Present11 Micropaleontology: Fossil Protistans12 Colonial Life: Sponges, Archaeocyathans, and Cnidarians 13 The Lophophorates: Brachiopods and Bryozoans14 Jointed Limbs: The Arthropods15 Kingdom of the Seashell: The Molluscs16 Spiny Skins: The Echinoderms 17 Dry Bones: Vertebrates and Their Relatives18 Fossilized Behavior: Trace Fossils19 Traces of the Earth's Green Mantle: Paleobotany