Why and How
Some Problems and Methods in Historical Biology
Published on 4. December 2015
272 pages
978-1-4831-8961-1 (ISBN)
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Why and How: Some Problems and Methods in Historical Biology discusses an overall approach to the study of fossils combined with paleontology. This book is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 consists of a few examples of studies of the fossil record, focusing on its adequacy, and ways of looking at and representing some of its aspects. The most basic aspects of study of the fossil record such as the examination, description, and illustration of the morphology of fossils are described in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 focuses on paleoecology and faunal analysis, while Chapter 4 emphasizes some of the aspects of phylogenetic principles and eclectic taxonomic theory. The essential apparatus for zoological studies that include biometrical statistics both in concepts and in measures are deliberated in Chapter 5. The last chapter deliberates the geographic distribution of organisms. This publication is a good source for paleontologists and biologists interested in historical biology.
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Introduction1. The Fossil Record Bias, Adequacy, and Sampling of the Fossil Record Continuity and Discontinuity in the Fossil Record History of a Fauna Periodicity in Vertebrate Evolution2. Morphology, Homology, and Function A Problem of Black on Black "Braincasts" A Way to Look Inside Fossils A Way to Tell Crocodiles Apart Ratio Diagrams The Concept and Definition of Homology An Exercise in Homology An Exercise in Functional Inference and Model-making How a Strange and Ancient Animal Got About3. Paleoecology and Faunal Analysis Ecological Analysis of an Ancient Local Fauna Faunal Analysis, Facies, and an Evolutionary Principle The Long View4. Systematics and Taxonomy Patterns of Cladistic Evolution Remarks on Vertebrate Phylogeny Higher Categories in Phylogeny and Taxonomy Supraspecific Variation and Higher Categories The Reality of Higher Categories The Concept of Species Types, Name-bearers, and Hypodigms in Taxonomy Taxonomic Linguistics5. Some Bits of Biometry An Application of Statistical Thinking and Methods Range as a Zoological Character Standardization of Normal Frequency Distributions6. Biogeography Approach to a Sampling Problem A History of an Intercontinental Faunal Resemblance Measurement of Faunal Resemblance Migration Routes An Example of Sweepstakes Dispersal Probability and Time Species Density of Recent North American Mammals Historical Analysis of a Continental Mammalian FaunaIndex
