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Evolutionary Paleoecology : The Ecological Context of Macroevolutionary Change - Warren Allmon

Evolutionary Paleoecology

The Ecological Context of Macroevolutionary Change

By: Warren Allmon (Editor), David Bottjer (Editor)

Hardcover | 14 February 2001 | Edition Number 1

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One of the most important questions we can ask about life is "Does ecology matter?". Most biologists and paleontologists are trained to answer "yes", but the exact mechanisms by which ecology matters in the context of patterns that play out over tens of hundreds of millions of years have never been entirely clear. This book examines these mechanisms and provides a look at how ancient environments affected evolution, focusing on the environmental and ecological context of long-term macroevolutionary changes as seen in the fossil record. Evolutionary paleoecology is not a new discipline. Beginning with Darwin, researchers have attempted to understand how the environment has affected evolutionary history. But as we learn more about these patterns, the search for a new synthetic view of the evolutionary process that integrates species evolution, ecology, and mass extinctions becomes ever more pressing. Rather than provide an encyclopedic synthesis of evolutionary paleoecology, the present volume is a benchmark sampler of active research in this ever more active field.
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With an in-depth look at how ancient environments affected evolution, this book focuses in on the long-term macro-evolutionary changes revealed through fossil records. Beginning with the initial research studies of Charles Darwin, biologists, paleontologists, researchers, and students are attempting to grasp the underlying concepts of how the mechanisms by which ecological patterns and evolutionary processes work. Southeastern Naturalist

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