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100 1 $aStanley, Steven M.
245 10 $aMacroevolution, pattern and process /$cSteven M. Stanley ; [artists, John and Judy Waller].
260 0 $aSan Francisco :$bW. H. Freeman,$cc1979.
300 $axi, 332 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. 303-320.
505 0 $aI. The fabric of evolution : Introduction ; Alternative shapes for the tree of life ; The modern synthesis ; Divergent speciation ; The status of quantum speciation in modern biology ; The status of quantum speciation in paleontology ; Summary -- II. Diverse lines of evidence : Introduction ; Evidence of rapid speciation ; Stability and gene flow ; Clines and ring species ; Genetic Distance ; Phyletic rates of phenotypic evolution ; Summary -- III. Longevity of chronospecies and rates of large-scale evolution : Introduction ; The nature of adaptive radiation ; Durations of mammalian chronospecies ; Human evolution ; The origins of mammalian genera ; The origins of invertebrate genera and the adequacy of the fossil record ; Limitations of phyletic evolution ; Accomplishments of phyletic evolution ; Summary -- IV. Rates of speciation and extinction : Introduction ; Adaptive radiation as experimental increase ; Extinction and speciation ; Rate of speciation and rate of large-scale evolution ; Living fossils reinterpreted ; Number of speciational steps in adaptive radiation ; Summary
505 0 $aV. The nature of quantum speciation : Introduction ; Chromosomal alteration ; Regulatory genes ; Hopeful monsters ; Coevolution ; The geography of speciation ; The ecoinsular model of adaptive radiation ; Variations among taxa ; The bottleneck effect ; The continuity of evolution ; Summary -- VI. Large-scale trends and species selection : Introduction ; Phylogenetic drift ; Directed speciation ; Species selection ; Isolate selection: directed speciation reconsidered ; The agents of species selection ; The opportunism of punctuational evolution ; Mass extinction and species selection ; Rates of large-scale evolution: fundamental controls ; Summary -- VII. Why sex prevails : Introduction ; Gradualistic views of sex ; Asexuality and adaption ; Clades versus clones ; The value of outbreeding ; The initial impact of sex ; Prominent asexual taxa ; Summary
505 0 $aVIII. Dynamics of species turnover variations among taxa : Introduction ; The correlation of S and E ; A scala naturae of durations? ; Morphologic complexity ; Marine gastropods ; Echinoids ; Reef Corals ; Bryozoa ; Planktonic forams ; Benthic forams ; Trilobites ; Barnacles ; Marine ostracods ; Ammonites ; Grapolites ; Freshwater fishes ; Insects ; Birds ; Reptiles ; Reasons for the correlation ; Dispersal ability ; Behavioral complexity ; Rates of phyletic evolution ; The future ; Summary -- IX. Speciation, extinction, and diversity in time and space : Introduction ; Evolutionary stability and mass extinction ; Random factors ; Options for maintaining diversity ; Elasticity and hierarchies of clades ; Diversity gradients ; Summary
650 7 $aPaléontologie.$2ram
650 7 $aEvolution.$2ram
650 0 $aEvolution.
650 0 $aPaleontology.
650 0 $aMacroevolution.
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