Re: Fwd: book report

On 1/14/2025 10:16 PM, erik simpson wrote:

I posted this on scibio.paleontolgy, but I'll send it here too,
on the chance somebody is interested.
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Subject: book report
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:13:26 -0800
From: erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com>
To: sci.bio.paleontology <sci.bio.paleontology@googlegroups.com>
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 I've just finished reading "Macroevolutionaries" by Lieberman and Eldredge.  I recommend it highly.  It's a history extending from the beginning of the 19th century to the present of the evolution (no pun) of the gradual development of our understanding of evolution itself. One of the punctuations (pun intended this time) is the brilliance of SJ Gould.
 Some of the more funny chapters involves the evolution of trumpets, replete with a mass extinction of valveless trumpets around 1820, rapid diversification and eventual slower evolution to the present day. Clades can be identified. It seems that biology isn't the only thing that "only makes sense as evolution".
 

Does he make the differentiation between phenotypic stasis and what is constantly occurring with the evolution of the genotype?
Ron Okimoto