The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology by David Sepkoski (PDF)

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The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology.

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⭐Give me a break: There’s more angst in here than an adolescent school girl’s diary! Page after page of it, as decent scientists, who should be proud of their canon, shed their dignity to queue up and deliver hand-wringing apologies for a perfectly rigorous science which doesn’t require any apology whatsoever. And, to make matters worse, a good deal of the writing is reminiscent of the kind of pseudo-profound postmodern twaddle one hopes to avoid by not reading ‘Social Text’.What were they thinking?Don’t get me wrong: there is some very interesting stuff in here. But the prevailing tone, the whole theme really, as given away by the subtitle of the introductory piece by Sepkoski (David: not John) and Ruse – “Paleontology at the High Table” – is the offensive proposition that paleontologists have had something to prove.What were they thinking?

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