Macroevolutionaries

Macroevolutionaries

Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould

Lieberman, Dr. Bruce; Eldredge, Niles

Columbia University Press

08/2024

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Preface
1. The Three Musketeers of Macroevolution: Does Anyone Get to Be D'Artagnan?
2. Asleep at the Switch: Paleontological Life Lessons, Stasis, and the Genius of Yogi Berra
3. Survival of the Laziest: Does Evolution Permit Naps?
4. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Times Square: Gould, Kant, and Super Dave
5. Expanding Evolution: Organisms and Species, the Soma, and the Technosphere
6. Declining Volatility: A General Evolutionary Principle and Its Relevance to Fossils, Stocks, and Stars
7. Paleo Personas: Musings on a Soviet Cephalopod, Norman Newell, and Mass Extinctions
8. Stardust Memories: Reading Evolution and Extinction in the Stars
9. Is Eternal Sex Necessary? Or, What Are These Coywolves Doing in My Backyard?
10. Darwin in the Galapagos: Running the Beagle Tape Backward
11. Of Cultural Nationalism, Hamlet, and the Cloaca Universalis: Why Citation Is the Best Policy
12. When Is a Raptor a Parrot? The Curious Case of the American Kestrel
13. What's Your Favorite Trilobite? Walter Winchell Wouldn't Have Cared
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
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