- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Paleontology at the High Table
-
Chapter One The Emergence of Paleobiology -
Chapter Two The Fossil Record: Biological or Geological Signal? -
Chapter Three Biogeography and Evolution in the Early Paleozoic -
Chapter Four The Discovery of Conodont Anatomy and Its Importance for Understanding the Early History of Vertebrates -
Chapter Five Emergence of Precambrian Paleobiology: A New Field of Science -
Chapter Six Dinosaurs at the Table -
Chapter Seven Ladders, Bushes, Punctuations, and Clades: Hominid Paleobiology in the Late Twentieth Century -
Chapter Eight Punctuated Equilibria and Speciation: What Does It Mean to Be a Darwinian? -
Chapter Nine Molecular Evolution vis-à-vis Paleontology -
Chapter Ten Beyond Detective Work: Empirical Testing in Paleontology -
Chapter Eleven Taxic Paleobiology and the Pursuit of a Unified Evolutionary Theory -
Chapter Twelve Ideas in Dinosaur Paleontology: Resonating to Social and Political Context -
Chapter Thirteen Reg Sprigg and the Discovery of the Ediacara Fauna in South Australia: Its Approach to the High Table -
Chapter Fourteen The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schmdewolf -
Chapter Fifteen “Radical” or “Conservative”? The Origin and Early Reception of Punctuated Equilibrium -
Chapter Sixteen The Shape of Evolution: The MBL Model and Clade Shape -
Chapter Seventeen Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated George Gaylord Simpson -
Chapter Eighteen The Consensus That Changed the Paleobiological World -
Chapter Nineteen The Infusion of Biology into Paleontological Research -
Chapter Twenty From Empirical Paleoecology to Evolutionary Paleobiology: A Personal Journey -
Chapter Twenty-One Intellectual Evolution Across an Academic Landscape -
Chapter Twenty-Two The Problem of Punctuational Speciation and Trends in the Fossil Record -
Chapter Twenty-Three Punctuated Equilibrium versus Community Evolution -
Chapter Twenty-Four An Interview with David M. Raup -
Chapter Twenty-Five Paleontology in the Twenty-first Century -
Chapter Twenty-Six Punctuations and Paradigms: Has Paleobiology Been through a Paradigm Shift? - Contributors
- Index
The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schmdewolf
The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schmdewolf
- Chapter:
- (p.279) Chapter Fourteen The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schmdewolf
- Source:
- The Paleobiological Revolution
- Author(s):
Manfred D. Laubichler
Karl J. Niklas
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter examines the important morphological tradition in German paleontology. It suggests that the pluralistic and biologically oriented German paleontology both predated and anticipated many of the concerns of the paleobiology movement in the United States. This chapter explains that German paleontology developed its own paleobiology independently of both the Anglo-American tradition and the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. Thus, it can be considered a perfect topic for a cultural history of science that places the development of scientific theories and concepts clearly within the framework of cultural references, values, and transformations.
Keywords: German paleontology, morphological tradition, United States, paleobiology, Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, scientific theories, cultural references
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Paleontology at the High Table
-
Chapter One The Emergence of Paleobiology -
Chapter Two The Fossil Record: Biological or Geological Signal? -
Chapter Three Biogeography and Evolution in the Early Paleozoic -
Chapter Four The Discovery of Conodont Anatomy and Its Importance for Understanding the Early History of Vertebrates -
Chapter Five Emergence of Precambrian Paleobiology: A New Field of Science -
Chapter Six Dinosaurs at the Table -
Chapter Seven Ladders, Bushes, Punctuations, and Clades: Hominid Paleobiology in the Late Twentieth Century -
Chapter Eight Punctuated Equilibria and Speciation: What Does It Mean to Be a Darwinian? -
Chapter Nine Molecular Evolution vis-à-vis Paleontology -
Chapter Ten Beyond Detective Work: Empirical Testing in Paleontology -
Chapter Eleven Taxic Paleobiology and the Pursuit of a Unified Evolutionary Theory -
Chapter Twelve Ideas in Dinosaur Paleontology: Resonating to Social and Political Context -
Chapter Thirteen Reg Sprigg and the Discovery of the Ediacara Fauna in South Australia: Its Approach to the High Table -
Chapter Fourteen The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schmdewolf -
Chapter Fifteen “Radical” or “Conservative”? The Origin and Early Reception of Punctuated Equilibrium -
Chapter Sixteen The Shape of Evolution: The MBL Model and Clade Shape -
Chapter Seventeen Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated George Gaylord Simpson -
Chapter Eighteen The Consensus That Changed the Paleobiological World -
Chapter Nineteen The Infusion of Biology into Paleontological Research -
Chapter Twenty From Empirical Paleoecology to Evolutionary Paleobiology: A Personal Journey -
Chapter Twenty-One Intellectual Evolution Across an Academic Landscape -
Chapter Twenty-Two The Problem of Punctuational Speciation and Trends in the Fossil Record -
Chapter Twenty-Three Punctuated Equilibrium versus Community Evolution -
Chapter Twenty-Four An Interview with David M. Raup -
Chapter Twenty-Five Paleontology in the Twenty-first Century -
Chapter Twenty-Six Punctuations and Paradigms: Has Paleobiology Been through a Paradigm Shift? - Contributors
- Index
