Macroevolution, Pattern and Process

by Steven M. Stanley

Book Overview

In Macroevolution, Steven Stanley addresses, from a paleobiologist's perspective, the question of whether punctuated equilibria or gradualism offers the best account of the history of life. Punctuated equilibria, a view popularized by Stephen Jay Gould a

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716710927
• ISBN13: 9780716710929
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview

This book, although somewhat dated, provides an excellent look at the broad trends of evolution through the eyes of a leading Johns Hopkins paleontologist. Stanley examines explains the modern synthesis, fossil evidence, speciation and extinction rates, quantum speciation, large-scale trends, and the dynamics of species turnover. Among the groups examined are gastropods, echinoids, corals, microfossils, graptolites, and vertebrates.