Evolutionary Paleobiology

Acknowledgments 1: James W. Valentine: An Appreciation Douglas H. Erwin, David Jablonski, Jere H. Lipps. 2: Molecular Paleogenetics: The Evolutionary History of Plasmodium and Related Protists Ananias A. Escalante, Francisco J. Ayala. 3: Hierarchies in Macroevolution Niles Eldredge 4: Models of Morphological Diversification Mike Foote 5: The Shifting Balance of Natural Communities? Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, John M. Pandolfi. 6: Do Communities Evolve? A Major Question in Evolutionary Paleoecology Richard K. Bambach, J. Bret Bennington. 7: Reading the Chronicle of Quaternary Temperate Rocky Shore Faunas David R. Lindberg, Jere H. Lipps. 8: On the Nonprevalence of Competitive Replacement in the Evolution of Tetrapods Michael J. Benton 9: Competition in Macroevolution: The Double Wedge Revisited J. John Sepkoski, Jr 10: Body Size and Macroevolution David Jablonski 11: Evolution of the Fossil Record: Thickness Trends in Marine Skeletal Accumulations and Their Implications Susan M. Kidwell, Patrick J. Brenchley. 12: Locomotion and Respiration in Aquatic Air-Breathing Vertebrates Richard Cowen 13: Marine Biological Diversity: Muricid Gastropods as a Case Study Geerat J. Vermeij 14: The Geography of Evolutionary Turnover: A Global Analysis of Extant Bivalves Karl W. Flessa, David Jablonski. 15: Understanding Biotic Recoveries: Extinction, Survival, and Preservation during the End-Permian Mass Extinction Douglas H. Erwin 16: Extinction Models David M. Raup 17: On Telling, Altering, and Enriching Stories: An Unpublished Darwin Letter from a Key Incident in His Later Life Stephen Jay Gould Appendix: Geological Time Scale List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index