『Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline』

David Sepkoski

(2013年8月刊行,The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, vi+432 pp., ISBN:9780226748559 [hbk] / ISBN:9780226748580 [eBook] → 版元ページ

【目次】
Introduction: Rereading the Fossil Record 1
Chapter 1. Darwin’s Dilemma: Paleontology, the Fossil Record, and Evolutionary Theory 9
Chapter 2. The Growth of Theoretical Paleontology 39
Chapter 3. The Rise of Quantitative Paleobiology 77
Chapter 4. From Paleoecology to Paleobiology 113
Chapter 5. Punctuated Equilibria and the Rise of the New Paleobiology 137
Chapter 6. The Founding of a Research Journal 185
Chapter 7. “Towards a Nomothetic Paleontology”: The MBL Model and Stochastic Paleontology 215
Chapter 8. A “Natural History of Data”: The Rise of Taxic Paleobiology 271
Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Mass Extinctions 323
Chapter 10. Toward a New Macroevolutionary Synthesis 353
Conclusion: Paleontology at the High Table? 385
Acknowledgments 395
Abbreviations 399
Works Cited 401
Index 419