Living FossilsN. Eldredge, S. M. Stanley Springer Science & Business Media, 6 dic 2012 - 291 páginas The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in their familiar appli cation to law and medicine. The case method had its formal beginning at Harvard in 1871 when Christopher Lagdell developed it as a means of teaching. It was so successful in teaching law that it was soon adopted in medical education, and the collection of cases provided the raw material for research on various diseases. Subsequently, the case history approach spread to such varied fields as business, psychology, management, and economics, and there are over 100 books in print that use this approach. The idea for a series of Casehooks in Earth Science grew from my experience in organizing and editing a collection of examples of one variety of sedimentary deposits. The prqject began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of papers was needed. Accordingly, the nearly fifty contributors worked together with George de Vries Klein and me to establish a standard format for presenting the case histories. |
Índice
The Tree Squirrel Sciurus Sciuridae Rodentia as a Living | |
A Living Model of the Ancestral | |
Are There Any Anthropoid Primate Living Fossils? | |
Evolutionary Pattern and Process in the SisterGroup | |
Tapirs as Living Fossils | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
1984 Niles Eldredge Africa alcelaphine alligator Amer American Amia analysis anatomy behavior bradytelic bradytely broadnosed Bull Casebooks in Earth Cephalocarida characters clade cladistic coerulea Cracraft Cretaceous crocodiles crocodilians Crustacea derived differences distribution diversity ecology Eldredge and Steven Eocene evolution evolutionary rates extant extinct fauna fishes Formation fossil record genera genus Geol habitat Heliopora Heptranchias Hessler hexanchoids Hexanchus Hist horseshoe crabs impala invertebrates Kindleia known Late lineages living fossils living species lower Macroscelides mammals Miocene molars morphological Natural History nautiloids Nautilus Nellia Nile crocodiles Niles Eldredge North America Notidanus occur Oligocene ostariophysans Paleocene paleontology pattern Patterson phylogenetic phylogeny Pleistocene Pliocene populations predation primitive range Recent relationships relatively Rhynchocyon Sciurus shell similar Simpson sistergroup skull speciation specimens Springer Science+Business Media squirrels Stanley eds suggested synapomorphies Tapirus Tarsius taxa taxon taxonomic teeth Tertiary tooth tragulids treeshrews variation vertebrates Vrba York 1984 Niles Zool