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- Title: Events of Increased Biodiversity, Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record
- Author: Pascal Neige
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Pages: 137
This book is written for a broad audience who is interested in science in general and paleontology in particular. It is my hope that it will offer non-expert readers an effective introduction to the phenomena of diversification of life. The book is also intended for university students, for whose benefit it includes explanations and ruminations about this issue of diversification of the biological world, and of how that issue is approached in paleontology. Here, the question is dealt with from a standpoint based almost entirely on fossil data.
Of course, here and there, examples are cited of the biodiversity in the world today, but nothing hugely detailed in comparison with the fossil examples given. The book is a personal treatise, guided by my own scientific specialty. It is also an accurate rund own of the situation as it stands, as paleontological data have, in the past, contributed to the recognition and later analysis of these phenomena of diversification.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to the many colleagues and friends who, in their different ways, have contributed to the writing of this book. Some of them looked over the manuscript with a critical eye in relation to the science; others the style; others walked me through the finer points of their particular areas of expertise, into which I (sometimes boldly) ventured.
Still more, who are collection curators, opened their doors to me, allowing me to discover astonishing, exciting fossils, and also helping me to add some of my own to the collections. Of these various contributors, I am particularly