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Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, it was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the fossil record would be used against his theory of evolution. But with the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontolo ... More
Keywords: paleontology, evolutionary biology, Darwin, fossil record, theory of evolution, George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup
Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226748610 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226748597.001.0001 |
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