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Science 26 February 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5406, p. 1271
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5406.1271
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PALEOBIOLOGY:
Enough Remains to Work With

A review by Tomasz K. Baumiller

The Adequacy of the Fossil Record
Stephen K. Donovan and Christopher R. C. Paul, Eds.
Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1998. 322 pp. $125, £50. ISBN 0-471-96988-5.

The contributors discuss theoretical issues, quantitative approaches, and case studies demonstrating that the incomplete fossil record provides data adequate for examining a wide range of evolutionary questions.
The author is at the Museum of Paleontology, 1529 Ruthven Museum, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, USA. E-mail: tomasz{at}umich.edu

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