Fifteen years ago, I think it inconceivable that editors should have offered, or a reviewer
accepted, a title such as mine. After all, evolution is a theory about the history of life; …

The long-awaited revision of the industry standard on phylogenetics Since the publication of
the first edition of this landmark volume more than twenty-five years ago, phylogenetic …

No question in theoretical biology has been more perennially controversial or perplexing
than" What is a species?" Recent advances in phylogenetic theory have called into question …

Planktic foraminifera are an abundant component of deep-sea sediment and are critical to
geohistorical research, primarily because as a biological and geochemical system they are …

The study of marine plankton has traditionally focused on those or ganisms that appeared to
have obvious ecological significance in un derstanding the major patterns of biological …

We have organized our responses first on an author-by-author basis. In some cases, a
single topic is discussed in more than one section so that we can respond directly to …

One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological
principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and …

Names: Prothero, Donald R.| Buell, Carl Dennis, illustrator. Title: Evolution: what the fossils
say and why it matters/Donald R. Prothero; with original Illustrations by Carl Buell …

The warm-water planktonic foraminiferal Globorotalia tumida lineage has been studied in a
10-Myr-long stratigraphic sequence (Late Miocene through Recent) from the Indian Ocean …

Ancestral state reconstruction is at the center of a tremendous resurgence in inter? est in
comparative methods in evolution? ary biology. Also known as character opti? mization or …