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  title info:
    title: Dynamic Paleontology
    sub title: Using Quantification and Other Tools to Decipher the History of Life
  name:
    name part: McMenamin, Mark A.S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 251 p. 146 illus., 80 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. Written in an engaging and informative style, Dynamic Paleontology outlines the best application of quantitative and other tools to critical problems in the paleontological sciences including such topics as analysis of the Cambrian Explosion and the question regarding the presence of life on Mars. The book considers how we think about certain types questions and shows how we can refine our approach to analysis right from the beginning of any particular research effort. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other fields of knowledge; as such the book represents a major contribution to our deployment of modern scientific method.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Scleritome -- Christmas Tree Stromatolite -- Archaeocyath Mixotrophy -- Environmental Convergence -- Mat Farmers -- Etch Stop -- Sampling Bias -- Shell Alignment -- Deep Bones -- Dung Stones -- Cambrian Cannibals -- Parenting Skills -- First Fruits -- Pandora's Pithos -- Systematics -- Index. .
  note: by Mark A.S. McMenamin.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
    topic: Statistical methods
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Quantitative Geology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Geology
  identifier: 9783319227771
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22777-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 160610
    record change date: 20160927112448.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-22777-1