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Eternal ephemera : adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond
- Title
- Eternal ephemera : adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond / Niles Eldredge.
- Author
- Eldredge, Niles
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xix, 376 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-366) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : approaching adaptation and the origin of species -- Part I. Birth of modern evolutionary theory. 1 The advent of the modern fauna : on the births and deaths of species, 1801-1831 ; 2. Darwin and the Beagle : experimenting with transmutation, 1831-1836 ; 3. Enter adaptation, and the conflict between isolation and gradual adaptive change, 1836-1859 -- Part II. Rebellion and reinvention : the taxic perspective, 1935-. 4. Species and speciation reconsidered, 1935- ; 5. Punctuated equilibria : speciation and stasis in paleontology, 1968- ; 6. Speciation and adaptation : large-scale patterns in the evolution of life, 1972-.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-12942
- ISBN
- 9780231153164 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231153163 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231526753 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014022519
- OCLC
- 891001379
- Author
- Eldredge, Niles, author.
- Title
- Eternal ephemera : adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond / Niles Eldredge.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-366) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-12942