Fossils and Evolution

by Tom Kemp and T.S. Kemp

Book Overview

Rather than survey of the extensive data, this book focuses on the ideas, methodology and scope of contemporary palaeobiology. It examines the complex interdependence of evolutionary theory and the interpretation of the fossil record. The author demonstrates that this is not the circular
argument between pattern and process sometimes alleged, but a matter of understanding carefully the interrelationship between palaeontological and neontological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198504241
• ISBN13: 9780198504245
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"