Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution

by James W. Valentine

Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.

Originally published in 1986.

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452 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1985

About the author

James W. Valentine was an American evolutionary biologist, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology.