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Title: Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by E. N. K. Clarkson, Clarkson, Euan, N.K. Clarkson ISBN: 0-632-05238-4 Publisher: Blackwell Pub Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $70.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Power of Paleontology
Comment: This very fine invertebrate paleontology textbook strikes a nice balance between focus on the paleobiology/taxonomy of the organisms and theoretical topics in the science. The well-crafted illustrations help to make the sometimes intricate details of fossil morphology clear. Clarkson has a knack for bringing forth key details that illuminate ancient organisms (e.g., the hysteresis mechanisms that control the liquid in cephalopod chambers), and he writes with a wry sense of humor (see the Lehmann quotation on p. 245). The importance of convergent evolution is apparent throughout the book, and is one of the main lessons to be learned from the science of invertebrate paleontology. The next edition of this book needs to stop calling the Ediacarans a "fauna" (the term "biota" is preferable, as we are not sure that Ediacarans were indeed animals). I also have quibbles with the higher taxonomy presented in this book for other groups. Overall, however, this is an outstanding presentation of invertebrate paleontology.
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Title: Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution by Robert L. Carroll ISBN: 0716718227 Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $66.95 |
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Title: Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants by Wilson N. Stewart, Gar W. Rothwell ISBN: 0521382947 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey ISBN: 0375406255 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek E. G. Briggs, Douglas H. Erwin, Frederick J. Collier ISBN: 156098659X Publisher: Smithsonian Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ancient Invertebrates and Their Living Relatives by Harold L. Levin ISBN: 0137489552 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 17 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $77.00 |
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