Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record

Book Overview

With advances in molecular and evolutionary biology, one could almost wonder why we need the fossil record. Molecular sequence data can resolve taxanomic relationships, experiments with fruit flies demonstrate evolution and development in real time, and field studies of Galapagos finches have provided the strongest evidence for natural selection ever measured in the wild. What, then, can fossils teach us that living organisms cannot?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226389308
• ISBN13: 9780226389301
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"