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Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America

Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America

Martin, Robert A.
Barnosky, Anthony D.

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GeologyPaleontology

ISBN10: 0521020816
ISBN13: 9780521020817
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Oct 6 2005
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book examines case studies of North American Quaternary mammalian evolution within the larger domain of modern evolutionary theory. It presents previously unpublished studies of a variety of taxa (xenarthrans, rodents, carnivores, ungulates) examined over several temporal scales, from a few thousand years during the Holocene to millions of years of late Pliocene and Pleistocene time. Different organizational levels are represented, from mosaic population variation, to a synopsis of Quaternary evolution of an entire order (Rodentia). In addition to specific case histories, the book includes purely theoretical and methodological contributions, for example, on the statistical recognition of stasis in the fossil record, new ways to calculate evolutionary rates, and the use of digital image analysis in the study of dental ontogeny. Perhaps the most important aspect of the studies reported in this book is that they span the time between the ecological moment and deep time. Modern taxa can be traced back into the fossil record, and variation among extant taxa can be used as a control against which variation in the extinct ones can be understood.

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