Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters /

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Autor principal: Prothero, Donald R.
Formato: Desconocido
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: New York : Columbia university press, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Materias:
Paleontología
Fósil
Evolución
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Evolution and the Fossil Record. 1. The Nature of Science. What is science?
  • Belly Buttons and testability
  • Natural and supernatural
  • Science, pseudoscience and baloney detection
  • Folow the evidence wherever it may lead
  • 2. Science and Creationism. Mything lins
  • The genesis of genesis
  • What is creationism?
  • Twentieth-century creationism
  • "Intelligent design" or "Breathataking inanity"?
  • The monkey business of creationism
  • 3. The Fossil Record. Lucky accidents of fossilization
  • Faunal succession or "flood geology"?
  • The surreal world of "flood geology"
  • The grand canyon through the ooking glass
  • Ship of foolishness?
  • Dates with rocks
  • Punk eek, transitional forms and quote - miner
  • 4. The Evolution of Evolution. Before Darwin
  • The evolution of Darwin
  • The neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis
  • Challenges to neo-Darwinism
  • Unfinished synthesis
  • Lamarck Revisited
  • Neutralism, Junk DNA and molecular clocks
  • Macroevolution and evo / devo
  • The evidence of evolution
  • The family tree of life
  • Homology
  • Vestigial structure and other imperfections
  • Embryology
  • Biogeography
  • Evolution happens all the time!
  • 5. Systematics and Evolution. What is systematics?
  • What is taxonomy?
  • Ladders, bushes, mosaics and "missing links"
  • The cladistic revolution
  • Ancestor worship
  • The molecular third dimension
  • The branching tree of life
  • Part 2. Evolution? The Fossils Say YES!. 6. Life's Origins. To the blazing hot north pole
  • Recipe for primordial soup
  • Mosh pits, fool's gold, kitty litter, black smokers and mud
  • Communal living builds complex cells
  • Probability and the origin of life
  • 7. Cambrian "Explosion"—or Slow Fuse?. The creationists' favorite myth
  • Step 1: planet of the scum
  • Step 2: the garden of ediacara
  • Step 3: the little shellies
  • Step 4: in with a whimper, not a bang
  • 8. Spineless Wonders of Evolution. Invertebrate transitions
  • The incredible world of microfossils
  • The story in the seashells
  • What about macroevolution?
  • 9. Fish Tales. Show some backbone!
  • It's a long way from amphioxus
  • Jaws: the evolutionary story
  • 10. Fish Out of Water. The great leap upward
  • Lobe fins lead the way
  • Four on the floor
  • 11. Onto the Land and Back to the Sea: The Amniotes. Innovative eggs
  • Evolution of the great sea dragons
  • Snakes with legs and hopping crocodiles
  • 12. Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly. Dinosaur transitions
  • Lifestyles of the huge and ancient
  • Dinosaurs are alive!
  • 13. Mammalian Explosion. From anmiote to synapsid to mammals
  • Furballs in the age of dinosaurs
  • Radiation in the aftermath
  • Lions and tigers and bears , Oh my!
  • 14. Bossies and Blowholes. Thundering hooves
  • Tiny horses, hornless rhinoceroses and thunder beasts
  • Kingdom of cloven hooves
  • Walding whales
  • Dumbo and the mermaid
  • 15. The Ape's Reflection?. The only transition that really matters
  • The truth about human fossils
  • The third chimpanzee
  • 16. Why Does It Matter?. Deceit in the name of the lord
  • Why should we care?
  • Choices for the future.

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