Living fossils
The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in their familiar appli cation to law and medicine. The case method had its formal beginning at Harvard in 1871 when Christopher Lagdell developed it as a means of teaching. It was so successful in teaching law that it was soon adopted in medical education, and the collection of cases provided the raw material for research on various diseases. Subsequently, the case history approach spread to such varied fields as business, psychology, management, and economics, and there are over 100 books in print that use this approach. The idea for a series of Casehooks in Earth Science grew from my experience in organizing and editing a collection of examples of one variety of sedimentary deposits. The prqject began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of papers was needed. Accordingly, the nearly fifty contributors worked together with George de Vries Klein and me to establish a standard format for presenting the case histories
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xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
9780387909578, 9783540909576, 0387909575, 3540909575
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Series preface / Robert N. Ginsburg
Living fossils: introduction to the casebook / Niles Eldregde and Steven M. Stanley
Evolutionary Statis in the elephant-shrew, Rhynchocyon / Michael Novacek
The tree squirrel Sciurus (Sciuridae, Rodentia) as a living fossil / Robert J. Emry and Richard W. Thorington, Jr
The tree-shrew, Tupaia: a "living model" of the ancestral primate? / Ian Tattersall
What is a tarsier? / Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Are there any anthropoid primate living fossils? / Eric Delson and Alfred L. Rosenberger
Evolutionary pattern and process in the sister-group Alcelaphini-aepycerotini (Mammalia: bovidae) / Elisabeth S. Vrba
Tapirs as living fossils / Christine Janis
Tragulids as living fossils / Christine Janis
Conceptual and methological aspects of the study of evolutionary rates, with soem comments on bradytely in birds / Joel Cracraft
Crocodilians as living fossils / Eugene R. Meyer
Family Chanidae and other teleostean fishes as living fossils / Colin Patterson
Denticeps clupeoides Clausen (1959): the static clupeomorph / P. Humphry Greenwood
Polypterus and Erpetoichthys: anachronistic osteichthyans / P. Humphry Greenwood
Sturgeons as living fossils / Brian G. Gardiner
The neopterygian Amia as a living fossil / Hans-Peter Schultze and E.O. Wiley
Family Lepisosteidae (Gars) as living fossils / E.O. Wiley and Hans-Peter Schultze
The coelacanth as a living fossil / Peter Forey
"Notidanus" / John G. Maisey and Katherine E. Wolfram
Cephalocarida: living fossil without a fossil record / Robert R. Hessler
Leptostraca as living fossils / Robert R. Hessler and Frederick R. Schram
Anaspidid syncardia / Frederick R. Schram and Robert R. Hessler
The xiphosurida: archetypes of bradytely? / Daniel C. Fisher
Peripatus as a living fossil / Michael T. Ghiselin
Neopilina, neomphalus and neritopsis, Living Fossil Molluscs / Roger L. Batten
Pleurotomaria: pedigreed perseverance? / Carole S. Hickman
The giant creeper, Campanile symbolicum Iredale, an Australian relict marine snail / Richard S. Houbrick
Diastoma melanioides (Reeve), a relict snail from South Australia / Richard S. Houbrick
The relict cerithiid prosobranch, Gourmya gourmyi (Crosse) / Richard S. Houbrick
Neotrigonia, the sole surviving genus of the trigoniidae (Bivalvia, Mollusca) / Steven M. Stanley
Is Nautilus a living fossil? / Peter Ward
The bryozoan Nellia tenella as a living fossil / Judith E. Winston and Alan H. Cheetham
The cretaceous coral Heliopora (Ocotocorallia, Coenothecalia): a common Indo-pacific reef builder / Mitchell W. Colgan
Simpson's inverse: bradytely and the phenomenon of living fossils / Niles Eldredge
Does bradytely exist? / Steven M. Stanley
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