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Eternal ephemera : adaptation and the Origin of species from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond / Niles Eldredge.

by Eldredge, Niles, author.

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New York : Columbia University Press, c2015.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.

Evolution (Biology) -- History.

Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.

Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)

Emergence (Philosophy)

9780231153171 (paperback) :

xix, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Introduction : approaching adaptation and the origin of species -- Part I. Birth of modern evolutionary theory. 1. The advent of the modern fauna : on the births and deaths of species, 1801-1831 ; 2. Darwin and the Beagle : experimenting with transmutation, 1831-1836 ; 3. Enter adaptation and the conflict between isolation and gradual adaptive change, 1836-1859. -- Part II. Rebellion and reinvention : the taxic perspective, 1935-. 4. Species and speciation reconsidered, 1935- ; 5. Punctuated equilibria : speciation and stasis in paleontology, 1968- ; 6. Speciation and adaptation : large-scale patterns in the evolution of life, 1972-

All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of speciesinterconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this book, paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral beings, revitalizing evolutionary science with their own, more resilient findings.--

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