Major aspects of evolution on the graptolites

• Autorzy: Rickards R.B.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The sequences of graptolite faunas, originations and extinctions, origin of new morphological types, and palaebiogeographical provinces are aspects of graptolite evolution which may be interpreted in terms of their essential coloniality, their change from benthos to plankton, inbreeding and outbreeding, genetic polymorphism and in terms of anagenetic and cladogenetic grades. Within this framework several topics are discussed which have been variously favoured over the years by neontologists and palaeontologists alike, to whit: neotony, paedomorphosis and recapitulation; adaptiveness and preadaptation; phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibria; mosaic evolution, convergence and parallelism; orthogenesis, programme evolution and the theory of trends; penetrance and expressivity biocharacters; and Cope's Rule. Some of these are rejected as untenable in a modern context and the others are considered against the evolutionary patterns peculiar to graptolites, and their major adaptive trends through time.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 1978
• Tom: 23
• Numer: 4
• Opis fizyczny: p.585-594,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Rickards R.B.

• Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, U.K.

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