Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene

By: Ross H. Nehm (Editor), Ann F. Budd (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 2008

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Science is supposedly ultimately constrained by the nature of the physical world, meaning that changes in scientific methods and practice are supposed to be away from those with less utility and toward those that are more revealing, useful, and productive of insights into the nature of that world. In practice, however, science is no less susceptible to fads, culture shifts, and pendulum swings than any other realm of human endeavor. This is an especially important feature of science to keep in mind in the present climate of shrinking government funding (at least in prop- tion to the demand) and the resulting susceptibility of individual scientists and entire disciplines to being influenced by the changing priorities of funding agencies (even if, as such agencies maintain, those priorities come ultimately "from the c- munity"). The present volume is in several important respects a testimonial to both the threats and opportunities that such scientific culture swings pose, both for the individual researcher and a wider field. When scientific research in the Dominican Republic Neogene began more than a century ago, paleontology was an essentially descriptive discipline, focused mainly on finding, describing, and documenting the taxa represented in the fossil record, and (especially in invertebrate paleontology) on using these taxa for bi- tratigraphic correlation. Despite the successful integration of paleontology into the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis in the middle of the twentieth century (Simpson, 1944, 1953; Jepsen et al.

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Aus den Rezensionen: "... Der vorliegende Band versteht sich als Zusammenfassung ... soll also zu weiteren Arbeiten ermutigen. ... Einer geschichtlichen Einfuehrung folgt eine sehr detaillierte Darstellung der Geologie und Stratigraphie. Weitere Kapitel behandeln Klimaveraenderungen (auf der Basis von Sr/Ca-Isotopen), taphonomische Prozesse am Beispiel von Mollusken, Evolution und Probleme des Artkonzepts in Korallen und Gastropoden, und Veraenderung der Faunenzusammensetzung bei Korallen- und Molluskenfaunen. Arbeiten zu Korallen ueberwiegen ganz klar und werden spaeter hier noch in eigenen Besprechungen gewuerdigt. ... Der Band ist reich illustriert ..." (H. LOESER, in: Zentralblatt fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Teil II: Palaeontologie, August/2009, Issue 3/4, S. 703 f.)

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Palaeobiological Research in the Cibao Valley of the Northern Dominican Republic	p. 1
An Overview of the Regional Geology and Stratigraphy of the Neogene Deposits of the Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic	p. 21
Constraints on Late Miocene Shallow Marine Seasonality for the Central Caribbean Using Oxygen Isotope and Sr/Ca Ratios in a Fossil Coral	p. 47
Assessing the Effects of Taphonomic Processes on Palaeobiological Patterns using Turbinid Gastropod Shells and Opercula	p. 63
Early Evolution of the Montastraea "annularis" Species Complex (Anthozoa: Scleractinia): Evidence from the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic	p. 85
Evolutionary Patterns Within the Reef Coral Siderastrea in the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic	p. 125
Neogene Evolution of the Reef Coral Species Complex Montastraea "cavernosa"	p. 147
The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the 'Prunum maoense Group'	p. 171
Assessing Community Change in Miocene to Pliocene Coral Assemblages of the Northern Dominican Republic	p. 193
Mollusc Assemblage Variability in the Rio Gurabo Section (Dominican Republic Neogene): Implications for Species-Level Stasis	p. 225
The Impact of Fossils from the Northern Dominican Republic on Origination Estimates for Miocene and Pliocene Caribbean Reef Corals	p. 253
Science Education and the Dominican Republic Project	p. 281
The Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America ("NMITA") Database: Integrating Data from the Dominican Republic Project	p. 301
Index	p. 311
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