TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Derek
TI  - Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction 
T2  - Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology
SN  - 9780511921100 (ebook)
AV  - QE721 .T88 2011
U1  - 560 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. Many of those questions have a philosophical dimension. How is macroevolution related to evolutionary changes within populations? Is evolutionary history contingent? How much can we know about the causes of evolutionary trends? How do paleontologists read the patterns in the fossil record to learn about the underlying evolutionary processes? Derek Turner explores these and other questions, introducing the reader to exciting recent work in the philosophy of paleontology and to theoretical issues including punctuated equilibria and species selection. He also critically examines some of the major accomplishments and arguments of paleontologists of the last 40 years
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921100
ER  -