Adaptation has been defined and recognized by two different criteria: historical genesis (features built by natural selection for their present role) and current utility (features now enhancing fitness no matter how they arose). Biologists have often failed to recognize the potential confusion between these different definitions because we have tended to view natural selection as…
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Paleobiology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine Biology and Ecology Research.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Paleobiology 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Marine Biology and Ecology Research Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies |
| ISSN | 0094-8373 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.83 |
| h-index | 167 |
| i10-index | 1,667 |
| Total citations | 138,811 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Chicago |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org |
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Bones of recent mammals in the Amboseli Basin, southern Kenya, exhibit distinctive weathering characteristics that can be related to the time since death and to the local conditions of temperature, humidity and soil chemistry. A categorization of weathering characteristics into six stages, recognizable on descriptive criteria, provides a basis for investigation of weathering rates and…
We believe that punctuational change dominates the history of life: evolution is concentrated in very rapid events of speciation (geologically instantaneous, even if tolerably continuous in ecological time). Most species, during their geological history, either do not change in any appreciable way, or else they fluctuate mildly in morphology, with no apparent direction. Phyletic gradualism…
We present a quantitative method for describing how heterochronic changes in ontogeny relate to phyletic trends. This is a step towards creating a unified view of developmental biology and evolutionary ecology in the study of morphological evolution. Using this representation, we obtain a greatly simplified and logical scheme of classification. We believe that this scheme…
Tertiary and Recent marine gastropods include in their ranks a complement of mechanically sturdy forms unknown in earlier epochs. Open coiling, planispiral coiling, and umbilici detract from shell sturdiness, and were commoner among Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic gastropods than among younger forms. Strong external sculpture, narrow elongate apertures, and apertural dentition promote resistance to crushing…