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  • Rereading the Fossil Record

    The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

    by David Sepkoski ...
    "David Sepkoski's book is the first to examine the rise of paleobiology and the emergence of macroevolution as a discipline in the 1970s." —Kevin Padian, University of California, BerkeleyRereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catastrophic Thinking

    Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

    by David Sepkoski ...
    A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to "think catastrophically" about extinction.We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy

    by David Sepkoski ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century?In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the belief that there is no necessary correspondence between external reality and objects of human ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Osiris, Volume 32

    Data Histories

    Edited by Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine, David Sepkoski ...
    Series Book 32 - Osiris
    The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women’s history, as well as the histories of many individual disciplines, to name just a few of the areas covered by essays in this volume. But the history ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences

    Edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, Marco Tamborini ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This open access handbook aims to provide a definitive assessment of the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences, understood broadly. The volume is intended for a broad range of readers, including graduate students, other scholars, and scientists, both familiar with and new to the history of the earth and environmental sciences.Essays ... Read more

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    An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

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    Gods and Heroes Brought to Life

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