The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, Developmental, and Ecological Perspectives

by Tom Kemp and T.S. Kemp

Book Overview

In the grand sweep of evolution, the origin of radically new kinds of organisms in the fossil record is the result of a relatively simple process: natural selection marching through the ages. Or is it? Does Darwinian evolution acting over a sufficiently long period of time really offer a complete explanation, or are unusual genetic events and particular environmental and ecological circumstances also involved? With The Origin of Higher Taxa,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022633595X
• ISBN13: 9780226335957
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"