Special issue on transitional forms
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach and which also happens to be special issue on transitional forms , is now available on-line. Many might remember there was another special issue in same journal regarding evolution of eyes.
In the new issue there are many brilliant articles written by some very well known scientists in the field like Niles Eldredge,Ryan Gregory,Luis M. Chiappe and many others. So dont forget to check this remarkable issue. below are the table of contents :
Evolution: Education and Outreach
Vol 2, Iss 2
Editorials
Editorial
Niles Eldredge and Gregory Eldredge
A Question of Individuality: Charles Darwin, George Gaylord Simpson and Transitional Fossils
Niles Eldredge
Evolutionary Concepts
Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions
T. Ryan Gregory
Special Issue on Transitional Fossils
Introduction
Donald R. Prothero
Palaeontological and Molecular Evidence Linking Arthropods, Onychophorans, and other Ecdysozoa
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Monoplacophorans and the Origin and Relationships of Mollusks
David R. Lindberg
The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their Spineless Relatives
Philip C. J. Donoghue and Mark A. Purnell
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition: New Fossils and Interpretations
Jennifer A. Clack
The Evolution of Marine Reptiles
Ryosuke Motani
Evolutionary Transitions Among Dinosaurs: Examples from the Jurassic of China
James M. Clark and Xing Xu
Downsized Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary Transition to Modern Birds
Luis M. Chiappe
Dimetrodon Is Not a Dinosaur: Using Tree Thinking to Understand the Ancient Relatives of Mammals and their Evolution
Kenneth D. Angielczyk
From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
J. G. M. Thewissen, Lisa Noelle Cooper, John C. George and Sunil Bajpai
Evolutionary Transitions in the Fossil Record of Terrestrial Hoofed Mammals
Donald R. Prothero
Educational Papers
A Name by Any Other Tree
Anastasia Thanukos
Transforming Our Thinking about Transitional Forms
Louise S. Mead
Access to Evolution
Lara Eldredge
News
Paleontology and Evolution in the News
Sidney Horenstein
Book Reviews
The Charms of Nature: Darwin on Meaning and Value
Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World, by George Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. pp. xxiii + 304, s/b $18.95
Adam M. Goldstein
Illuminating Charles Darwin’s Morality: Slavery, Humanity’s Origin and Unity, and Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory
Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Pp. xxi + 485. H/b $30.00
Joel Schwartz
Your Inner Fish
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin. Pantheon Books, 2008, 229 pages
Michael Gaspar
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