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Covering one of the most fantastic transitions in the history of life, Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity synthesizes research from many fields to explain why life suddenly blossomed in its diversity nearly 530 million years ago.

Contents

Table of Contents

Historical and Geological Settings

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Geological Context of Ediacaran and Cambrian Events

Chapter 3: The Environmental Context of the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian

The Record of Early Metazoan Evolution

Chapter 4: The Metazoan Tree of Life

Chapter 5: Dawn of Animals: The Ediacara Biota          

Chapter 6: Metazoan Architectures of the Cambrian Explosion

Biological Processes

Chapter 7: The Construction of Metazoan Ecosystems

Chapter 8: The Evolution of the Metazoan Genome and the Cambrian Explosion

Evolutionary Dynamics of the Cambrian Explosion

Chapter 9: Ghostly Ancestors

Chapter 10: Constructing the Cambrian

Appendix: First Appearances of Major Metazoan clades in the Fossil Record

References

Index

Authors

Douglas Erwin

Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist with interests in evolutionary innovations and the end-Permian mass extinction and subsequent biotic recovery, among other areas. Recent field projects have taken him to China, South Africa, and Canada. He is Senior Scientist and Curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History and a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of six books, including most recently Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Princeton University Press, 2005).


James Valentine

Jim Valentine has spent the last 50 years trying to understand the paleoecological and macroevolutionary principles that have shaped the fossil record of the marine biosphere. He has found the earliest animal records to be a particular challenge to such interpretation and a delight to investigate. He is active Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including most recently On the Origin of Phyla (University of Chicago Press, 2004).


Covering one of the most fantastic transitions in the history of life, Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity synthesizes research from many fields to explain why life suddenly blossomed in its diversity nearly 530 million years ago.

Table of Contents

Historical and Geological Settings

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Geological Context of Ediacaran and Cambrian Events

Chapter 3: The Environmental Context of the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian

The Record of Early Metazoan Evolution

Chapter 4: The Metazoan Tree of Life

Chapter 5: Dawn of Animals: The Ediacara Biota          

Chapter 6: Metazoan Architectures of the Cambrian Explosion

Biological Processes

Chapter 7: The Construction of Metazoan Ecosystems

Chapter 8: The Evolution of the Metazoan Genome and the Cambrian Explosion

Evolutionary Dynamics of the Cambrian Explosion

Chapter 9: Ghostly Ancestors

Chapter 10: Constructing the Cambrian

Appendix: First Appearances of Major Metazoan clades in the Fossil Record

References

Index

Douglas Erwin

Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist with interests in evolutionary innovations and the end-Permian mass extinction and subsequent biotic recovery, among other areas. Recent field projects have taken him to China, South Africa, and Canada. He is Senior Scientist and Curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History and a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of six books, including most recently Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Princeton University Press, 2005).


James Valentine

Jim Valentine has spent the last 50 years trying to understand the paleoecological and macroevolutionary principles that have shaped the fossil record of the marine biosphere. He has found the earliest animal records to be a particular challenge to such interpretation and a delight to investigate. He is active Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including most recently On the Origin of Phyla (University of Chicago Press, 2004).


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