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The Paleobiological Revolution. Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology.
David Sepkoski
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Description for The Paleobiological Revolution. Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology.
Paperback. Chronicles the ascendance of the once - maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. This title includes contributions and overviews from historians and philosophers of science. Editor(s): Sepkoski, David; Ruse, Michael. Num Pages: 584 pages, 29 halftones, 13 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 272 x 33. Weight in Grams: 796.
The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the ... Read more
The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226275710
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V9780226275710
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About David Sepkoski
David Sepkoski is a senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is the author of Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program in the History ... Read more
Reviews for The Paleobiological Revolution. Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology.
"In this volume we find the scientific bones of the paleobiology revolution carefully examined both by historians of science and as personal accounts from many of those who played a part in shaping the transformation. Together they tell the tale, heralded by John Maynard Smith, of the return of paleontologists to the 'high table' of evolutionary biology." (Science)