Evolution of Life
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5903-6 (ISBN)
Ken McNamara is Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology at the Western Australian Museum in Perth and Adjunct Professor of Palaeontology at Curtin University. His research interests centre on patterns and processes of evolution, particularly in a number of invertebrate groups, notably trilobites and echinoids. He has published extensively on the role of heterochrony in evolution. He has written more than 130 scientific papers and written or edited 21 books. These include a series of popular books on aspects of Western Australian geology and palaeontology; published by the Western Australian Museum; three popular science books on evolution: Shapes of Time: the Evolution of Growth and Development, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 342 pp (published in Japanese in 2001); The Evolution Revolution (with John Long), John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 298 pp; Its True! We Did Come from Bugs, Allen & Unwin, 2004, 84pp. This latter book is aimed at the upper Primary school market. He has also written or edited four other books on evolution: Evolutionary Trends, Belhaven Press, 1990, 368pp; Heterochrony: the evolution of ontogeny (with M.L. McKinney), Plenum Press, 1991, 420pp; Evolutionary Change and Heterochrony, Wiley, 1995, 286pp; Human Evolution through Developmental Change (with N. Minugh-Purvis), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 508pp. Stan Awramik is Professor of Palaeontology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests centre on understanding the early history of life on Earth. The major focus of his research is on the fossil record during the Archaean and Proterozoic, specifically on the evolution of microbial fossils and stromatolites, on which he has published extensively. Current research projects include: the early history of life in lakes; stromatolite diversity through time; Cenozoic lacustrine stromatolites; abiogenic versus biogenic stromatolites; palaeomicrobiology; life during Neoproterozoic snowball Earth times. Given the complementary nature of our research interests, with McNamara's emphasis being on evolution and Phanerozoic life history, and Awramik's on the Precambrian, and our shared teaching and research interests in the evolution of life on an evolving planet, we feel we are ideally suited to produce this book which we hope will become the standard introductory undergraduate text on the evolution of life.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Chichester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4051-5903-0 / 1405159030 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4051-5903-6 / 9781405159036 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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