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Rereading the Fossil Record
Book • 2012
David Sepkoski's book provides the first comprehensive history of paleobiology, examining its emergence in the 1970s and the development of macroevolution as a key discipline.
Drawing on archival materials, it explores how a small group of influential paleontologists, including figures like Stephen Jay Gould and David Raup, used quantitative analysis of fossils to address evolutionary patterns and challenge traditional views in biology, geology, and paleontology.
The work highlights the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics that propelled paleobiology's ascendancy.
Drawing on archival materials, it explores how a small group of influential paleontologists, including figures like Stephen Jay Gould and David Raup, used quantitative analysis of fossils to address evolutionary patterns and challenge traditional views in biology, geology, and paleontology.
The work highlights the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics that propelled paleobiology's ascendancy.
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Life in a Barrel
