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Science 2 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5544, p. 1008
DOI: 10.1126/science.1065294
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PALEOBIOLOGY:
Changes in Life Across Many Temporal Scales

A review by Richard Bambach

Evolutionary Patterns Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record
Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, and Frank K. McKinney, Eds.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001. 415 pp. $85, £54. ISBN 0-226-38930-8. Paper, $30, £19. ISBN 0-226-38931-6.

Exploring topics such as modes of development, tempos of speciation and extinction, and macroevolutionary trends, the contributors illustrate the many insights the fossil record offers to our understanding of life and its history.
The author is currently at the Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: rbambach{at}oeb.harvard.edu

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