1992, ISBN: 9780521340410

Washington: Catholic University of America, 1938. Diss., Catholic University of America. xiii, 153p., original stiff printed wrappers, ex libris (The Catholic University of America stud… Plus…

Washington: Catholic University of America, 1938. Diss., Catholic University of America. xiii, 153p., original stiff printed wrappers, ex libris (The Catholic University of America studies in medieval and Renaissance Latin, 7)., Catholic University of America, 1938, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition . Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good red pictorial trade paperback. Light wear, rear top corner tide-marked, pages wavy. (1992), 8vo, [6], v-xi, [1], 1-369pp. [1], CONTENTS: 1. Introduction: Why study fossil horses? The lore of horses and humans. Rationale, purpose, and scope --2. A renaissance in paleontology. The growth of vertebrate paleontology. The past few decades: a modern renaissance. New fossil discoveries. The new paleobiology --3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard. The foundations of orthogenesis. Marsh and fossil horses. Orthogenetic concepts and causality. Other views of fossil horses: a complexly branching tree. The spread of orthogenesis: old notions die hard --4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries. The antiquity and development of collecting fossil vertebrates. The importance of museum collections. Fossil horses, exceptional discoveries, and Lagerstatten: six case studies. Epilogue: conservation of threatened sites --5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and. Equidae. History of development of systematic thought: Ungulata and Perissodactyla. Monophyly and close relatives of the Perissodactyla. Perissodactyl clades: the cast of characters. The phylogenetic position of Hyracotherium. Grades, clades, and horses. Major clades of New World Equidae. Comments on the systematics of the Equidae. 6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time. Relative geological time. "Absolute" geological time: isotopes and paleomagnetism. Development of Cenozoic land-mammal Chronology and fossil horses. Concluding remarks --7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance. Biogeography before plate tectonics. Determinants of land-mammal distribution. Centers of origin and patterns of dispersal. Plate tectonics, Noah's Arks, vicariance, and isotopes. Distribution of fossil horses throughout the Cenozoic. Concluding comments --8. Evolutionary processes: variation, speciation, and extinction. Phenotypic variation and selection: the raw material and evolutionary catalyst. Species recognition in paleontology. Interpreting anagenesis and cladogenesis from the fossil record: theoretical and practical considerations. Speciation of fossil horses in North America. Key characters, adaptive radiations, and clade evolution. Extinction --9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution. Quantifying rates of morphological evolution: Haldane and darwins. Rates of morphological change in fossil horses. Allometry and scaling of horse evolution: Does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny? Taxonomic evolution: origination, duration, and extinction. Concluding remarks: Are evolutionary rates gradual or punctuated? --10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution. Fossil horses and classic trends in evolution. Cope's law and the evolution of body size in horses. Dollo's law, atavisms, and the irreversibility of evolution. Progress and purpose in evolution --11. What's the use? Functional morphology of feeding and locomotion. Feeding: herbivorous ungulates and hypsodonty. Horses and herbivory. Locomotion and the evolution of cursoriality. Concluding comment: horse chauvinism --12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and "paleoethology" Behavioral ecology and social organization of modern equids. Behavioral ecology and social organization of fossil horses: juggling the parameters. Sex in fossil horses. Age structure and population dynamics. Evolution of body size, vegetation, habitat, and climate: implications for the population biology of fossil Equidae. Evolution of selected life-history strategies from Hyracotherium to Equus: a summary. Concluding remarks: Does behavior fossilize? --13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution. Chronofaunas and paleoguilds. Cenozoic terrestrial communities in North America and fossil horses. Patterns of community structure: selected topics related to fossil horses. Concluding comments on paleoecology of Cenozoic mammals --14. Epilogue., Cambridge University Press, 1992<

1992, ISBN: 9780521340410

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition . Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good red pictorial trade paperback. Light … Plus…

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition . Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good red pictorial trade paperback. Light wear, rear top corner tide-marked, pages wavy. (1992), 8vo, [6], v-xi, [1], 1-369pp. [1], CONTENTS: 1. Introduction: Why study fossil horses? The lore of horses and humans. Rationale, purpose, and scope --2. A renaissance in paleontology. The growth of vertebrate paleontology. The past few decades: a modern renaissance. New fossil discoveries. The new paleobiology --3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard. The foundations of orthogenesis. Marsh and fossil horses. Orthogenetic concepts and causality. Other views of fossil horses: a complexly branching tree. The spread of orthogenesis: old notions die hard --4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries. The antiquity and development of collecting fossil vertebrates. The importance of museum collections. Fossil horses, exceptional discoveries, and Lagerstatten: six case studies. Epilogue: conservation of threatened sites --5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and. Equidae. History of development of systematic thought: Ungulata and Perissodactyla. Monophyly and close relatives of the Perissodactyla. Perissodactyl clades: the cast of characters. The phylogenetic position of Hyracotherium. Grades, clades, and horses. Major clades of New World Equidae. Comments on the systematics of the Equidae. 6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time. Relative geological time. "Absolute" geological time: isotopes and paleomagnetism. Development of Cenozoic land-mammal Chronology and fossil horses. Concluding remarks --7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance. Biogeography before plate tectonics. Determinants of land-mammal distribution. Centers of origin and patterns of dispersal. Plate tectonics, Noah's Arks, vicariance, and isotopes. Distribution of fossil horses throughout the Cenozoic. Concluding comments --8. Evolutionary processes: variation, speciation, and extinction. Phenotypic variation and selection: the raw material and evolutionary catalyst. Species recognition in paleontology. Interpreting anagenesis and cladogenesis from the fossil record: theoretical and practical considerations. Speciation of fossil horses in North America. Key characters, adaptive radiations, and clade evolution. Extinction --9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution. Quantifying rates of morphological evolution: Haldane and darwins. Rates of morphological change in fossil horses. Allometry and scaling of horse evolution: Does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny? Taxonomic evolution: origination, duration, and extinction. Concluding remarks: Are evolutionary rates gradual or punctuated? --10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution. Fossil horses and classic trends in evolution. Cope's law and the evolution of body size in horses. Dollo's law, atavisms, and the irreversibility of evolution. Progress and purpose in evolution --11. What's the use? Functional morphology of feeding and locomotion. Feeding: herbivorous ungulates and hypsodonty. Horses and herbivory. Locomotion and the evolution of cursoriality. Concluding comment: horse chauvinism --12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and "paleoethology" Behavioral ecology and social organization of modern equids. Behavioral ecology and social organization of fossil horses: juggling the parameters. Sex in fossil horses. Age structure and population dynamics. Evolution of body size, vegetation, habitat, and climate: implications for the population biology of fossil Equidae. Evolution of selected life-history strategies from Hyracotherium to Equus: a summary. Concluding remarks: Does behavior fossilize? --13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution. Chronofaunas and paleoguilds. Cenozoic terrestrial communities in North America and fossil horses. Patterns of community structure: selected topics related to fossil horses. Concluding comments on paleoecology of Cenozoic mammals --14. Epilogue., Cambridge University Press, 1992<