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 It presents previously unpublished studies of a variety of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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