Eternal ephemera adaptation and the Origin of species, from the nineteenth century, through punctuated equilibria and beyond / Niles Eldredge.
| Author/creator | Eldredge, Niles |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] |
| Description | xix, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : approaching adaptation and the Origin of species -- Birth of modern evolutionary theory -- The advent of the modern fauna : on the births and deaths of species, 1801-1831 -- Darwin and the Beagle : experimenting with transmutation, 1831-1836 -- Enter adaptation, and the conflict between isolation and gradual adaptive change, 1836-1859 -- Rebellion and reinvention : the taxic perspective, 1935 -- Species and speciation reconsidered, 1935 -- Punctuated equilibria : speciation and stasis in paleontology, 1968 -- Speciation and adaptation : large-scale patterns in the evolution of life, 1972. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014022519 |
| ISBN | 9780231153164 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |