Research Catalog

Title

Principles of paleontology / Michael Foote, Arnold I. Miller.

Author

Foote, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1963-

Publication

New York : W.H. Freeman, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Arnold I.
• Raup, David M.
• Stanley, Steven M.
• Miller, Arnold I., 1956-

Description

xv, 354 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

When published in 1971, Principles of Paleontology (POP) by David Raup and Steven Stanley revolutionized both textbooks and teaching in paleontology by adopting an approach that focused on the process of studying biologic groups, rather than a systematic approach (the study of individual groups of organisms), or an historical approach (narrating events to date). For this revision of Raup and Stanley's one-term undergraduate text, two of Raup's former students--Michael Foote and Arnold Miller--use that defining core approach to present an up-to-date portrait of a field that has undergone major transformations in the last two decades.

Subject

• Palaeontology
• Paleontology

Genre/Form

Textbooks

Note

• "A revised and updated editon of the classic text by David M. Raup and Steven M. Stanley."--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-339) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Nature of the Fossil Record -- Growth and Form -- Populations and Species -- Systematics -- Evolutionary Morphology -- Biostratigraphy -- Evolutionary Rates and Trends -- Global Diversity and Extinctions -- Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography -- Multidisciplinary Studies in Paleontology.

ISBN

• 9780716706137
• 071670613X

LCCN

^^2006926757

OCLC

• 71270693
• SCSB-10238293

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library