Studying Fossil Horses
Title | Studying Fossil Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Woodburne |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 2023-12-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004675620 |
Fossil Horses
Title | Fossil Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce J. MacFadden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1994-06-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780521477086 |
The horse has frequently been used as a classic example of long-term evolution because it possesses an extensive fossil record. This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from perspectives such as biology, geology, paleontology.
Fossil Horses of South America
Title | Fossil Horses of South America PDF eBook |
Author | José Luis Prado |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2017-04-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3319558773 |
This book provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades. The contemporary South American mammalian communities were shaped by the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama and by the profound climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene. Horses were a conspicuous group of immigrant mammals from North America that arrived in South America during the Pleistocene. This group is represented by 2 genera, Hippidion and Equus, which include small species (Hippidion devillei, H. saldiasi, E. andium and E. insulatus) and large forms (Equus neogeus and H. principale). Both groups arrived in South America via 2 different routes. One model designed to explain this migration indicates that the small forms used the Andes corridor, while larger horses used the eastern route and arrived through some coastal areas. Molecular dating (ancient DNA) suggests that the South American horses separated from the North American taxa (caballines and the New World stilt-legged horse) after 3.6 - 3.2 Ma, consistent with the final formation of the Panamanian Isthmus. Recent studies of stable isotopes in these horses indicate an extensive range of 13C values cover closed woodlands to C4 grasslands. This plasticity agrees with the hypothesis that generalist species and open biome specialist species from North America indicate a positive migration through South America.
Icons of Evolution
Title | Icons of Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Wells |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 159698533X |
Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.
Studying Fossil Horses
Title | Studying Fossil Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Véra Eisenmann |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9789004086166 |
Evolution
Title | Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Donald R. Prothero |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 891 |
Release | 2017-08-22 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0231543166 |
Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the transformation from early hominid to modern human. The book also details the many alleged “missing links” in the fossil record, including some of the most recent discoveries that flesh out the fossil timeline and the evolutionary process. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, vividly depicting such bizarre creatures as the Odontochelys, or the “turtle on the half shell”; fossil snakes with legs; and the “Frogamander,” a new example of amphibian transition. Prothero’s discussion of intelligent design arguments includes more historical examples and careful examination of the “experiments” and observations that are exploited by creationists seeking to undermine sound science education. With new perspectives, Prothero reframes creationism as a case study in denialism and pseudoscience rather than a field with its own intellectual dynamism. The first edition was hailed as an exemplary exploration of the fossil evidence for evolution, and this second edition will be welcome in the libraries of scholars, teachers, and general readers who stand up for sound science in this post-truth era.
Rereading the Fossil Record
Title | Rereading the Fossil Record PDF eBook |
Author | David Sepkoski |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2015-03-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022627294X |
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but influential group of paleontologists and examines the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics involved in the ascendency of paleobiology. By tracing the role of computer technology, large databases, and quantitative analytical methods in the emergence of paleobiology, this book also offers insight into the growing prominence and centrality of data-driven approaches in recent science.