Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms: Lessons from the Living

Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms: Lessons from the Living
ISBN-10
9401787212
ISBN-13
9789401787215
Category
Science
Pages
420
Language
English
Published
2014-04-29
Publisher
Springer Science & Business
Authors
Daniel I. Hembree, Brian F. Platt, Jon J. Smith

Description

Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Creative, experimental and interdisciplinary treatments of such ancient-Earth analogs form the basis of Lessons from the Living. This volume unites a diverse range of expert paleontologists, neontologists and geologists presenting case studies that cover a spectrum of topics, including functional morphology, taphonomy, environments and organism-substrate interactions.

Similar books