By Kyle Summers, Bernard Crespi
ISBN-10: 0199791759
ISBN-13: 9780199791750
Richard D. Alexander is an finished entomologist who grew to become his realization to fixing the most puzzling difficulties linked to the evolution of human social structures. utilizing impeccable Darwinian good judgment and elaborating, extending and including to the vintage theoretical contributions of pioneers of behavioral and evolutionary ecology like George Williams, William Hamilton and Robert Trivers, Alexander constructed the main unique and finished imaginative and prescient of human social evolution of his period. His principles and hypotheses have encouraged numerous biologists, anthropologists, psychologists and different social scientists to discover the evolution of human social habit in ever higher element, and lots of of his seminal principles have stood the try of time and are available to be pillars of our realizing of human social evolution. This quantity provides vintage papers or chapters through Dr. Alexander, every one fascinated about a massive subject matter from his paintings. Introductions by means of Dr. Alexander's former scholars and co-workers spotlight the significance of his paintings to the sphere, describe newer paintings at the subject, and talk about present problems with competition and curiosity.
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Lepidosauromorphs and archosauromorphs are equivalent in sharing the absence of the unique factors involved in the development of the carapace and plastron of turtles. This subject will be discussed more fully after consideration of molecular means to analyse the phylogenetic position of turtles. Rieppel’s later book chapter on this subject (2008) continued to support a diapsid origin for turtles, but recognized problems of accounting for the origin of the carapace and plastron from any known group of early amniotes.
In 1986 we brought a large collection of Chinese fossils to the AMNH for an exhibition that featured cladistic methodology, then in 1989 the administration accepted the proposal from Lowell Dingus and me for mounting the Barosaurus group now in the Rotunda. My involvement with the fossil hall renovation lasted until its completion in 1996. I worked on all of the halls, particularly in the incorporation of cladistics as the organizing theme. Thanks largely to the management skills and friendship of Lowell Dingus, the fossil hall exhibition program was immensely satisfying for me, and the highlight of my museum career.
I have only had three graduate students, Paul Sereno (the only one who went in the field with me, if you call Lord Howe Island ‘‘the field’’), Dan Chure, and Ron Coldiron. My first postdoctoral student, Peter Meylan (see Fig. 6), also became my closest scientific associate, coauthoring 10 papers, most of them substantial, and helping me when the transition to computer cladism became unavoidable in the late 1980s. By the early 1980s, cladistics was pretty much state-of-the-art for 15 systematics, and toward the end of the decade, computer programs were devised that married cladistics and numerical taxonomy.
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