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Eternal Ephemera - Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond (Paperback)
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Eternal Ephemera - Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond (Paperback)
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All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The
origin, extinction, and evolution of species-interconnected in the
web of life as "eternal ephemera"-are the concern of evolutionary
biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles
Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more
than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of
ephemeral beings, revitalizing evolutionary science with their own,
more resilient findings. Eldredge begins in France with the
naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who in 1801 first framed the
overarching question about the emergence of new species. The
Italian geologist Giambattista Brocchi followed, bringing in
geology and paleontology to expand the question. In 1825, at the
University of Edinburgh, Robert Grant and Robert Jameson introduced
the astounding ideas formulated by Lamarck and Brocchi to a young
medical student named Charles Darwin. Who can doubt that Darwin
left for his voyage on the Beagle in 1831 filled with thoughts
about these daring new explanations for the "transmutation" of
species. Eldredge revisits Darwin's early insights into evolution
in South America and his later synthesis of knowledge into a theory
of the origin of species. He then considers the ideas of more
recent evolutionary thinkers, such as George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst
Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the young and brash
Niles Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould, who set science afire with
their concept of punctuated equilibria. Filled with insights into
evolutionary biology and told with a rich affection for the
scientific arena, this book celebrates the organic, vital
relationship between scientific thinking and its subjects.
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