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Evolution and ecology

the pace of life

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An edition of Evolution and Ecology (1996)

Evolution and ecology

the pace of life

The mechanisms of macroevolutionary change have long been a contentious issue. Palaeoecological evidence, presented in this book, shows that evolutionary processes visible in ecological time do not build up into macroevolutionary trends, contrary to Darwin's original thesis.

The author discusses how climatic oscillations on ice-age time-scales are paced by variations in the Earth's orbit, and have thus been a permanent feature of Earth history. There is, however, little evidence for macroevolutionary change in response to these climatic changes, suggesting that over geological time macroevolution does not occur as a result of accumulated short-term processes.

These conclusions are used to construct a post-modern evolutionary synthesis in which evolution and ecology play an equal role. Written by a leading palaeoecologist, this book will be of interest to researchers in both ecology and evolutionary biology.

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English
Pages
241

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Cover of: Evolution and Ecology
Evolution and Ecology: The Pace of Life
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Evolution and ecology
Evolution and ecology: the pace of life
1997, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Evolution and Ecology
Evolution and Ecology: The Pace of Life (Cambridge Studies in Ecology)
December 28, 1996, Cambridge University Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Evolution and Ecology
Evolution and Ecology: The Pace of Life (Cambridge Studies in Ecology)
December 28, 1996, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-225) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York
Series
Cambridge studies in ecology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
575
Library of Congress
QH366.2 .B4635 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 241 p. :
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL976260M
Internet Archive
evolutionecology00benn_972
ISBN 10
0521390281, 0521399211
LCCN
96013368
Library Thing
5873886
Goodreads
4730891

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This chapter presents the current status of thinking on evolutionary processes in ecological and geological time.
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