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Text Box: Contents: Introduction: Paleontology at the High Table Michael Ruse and David Sepkoski Part I Major Innovations in Paleobiology 1 The Emergence of Paleobiology David Sepkoski 2 The Fossil Record: Biological or Geological Signal? Michael J. Benton 3 Biogeography and Evolution in the Early Paleozoic Richard A. Fortey 4 The Discovery of Conodont Anatomy and Its Importance for Understanding the Early History of Vertebrates Richard J. Aldridge and Derek E. G. Briggs 5 Emergence of Precambrian Paleobiology: A New Field of Science J. William Schopf 6 Dinosaurs at the Table Jack R. Horner 7 Ladders, Bushes, Punctuations, and Clades: Hominid Paleobiology in the Late Twentieth Century Tim D. White 8 Punctuated Equilibria and Speciation: What Does It Mean to Be a Darwinian? Patricia Princehouse 9 Molecular Evolution vis-ŕ-vis Paleontology Francisco J. Ayala Part II The Historical and Conceptual Significance of Recent Paleontology 10 Beyond Detective Work: Empirical Testing in Paleontology Derek Turner 11 Taxic Paleobiology and the Pursuit of a Unified Evolutionary Theory Todd A. Grantham 12 Ideas in Dinosaur Paleontology: Resonating to Social, Political, and Popular Context David E. Fastovsky 13 Reg Sprigg and the Discovery of the Ediacara Fauna in South Australia: Its Approach to the High Table Susan Turner and David Oldroyd 14 The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Schindewolf, Walter Zimmermann, and Adolf Seilacher Manfred D. Laubichler and Karl J. Niklas 15 “Radical” or “Conservative”? The Origin and Early Reception of Punctuated Equilibrium David Sepkoski 16 The Shape of Evolution: The MBL Model and Clade Shape John Huss 17 Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated George Gaylord Simpson Joe Cain 18 The Consensus That Changed the Paleobiological World Arnold I. Miller Part III Reflections on Recent Paleobiology 19 The Infusion of Biology into Paleontological Research James W. Valentine 20 From Empirical Paleoecology to Evolutionary Paleobiology:A Personal Journey Richard Bambach 21 Intellectual Evolution across an Academic Landscape Rebecca Z. German 22 The Problem of Punctuational Speciation and Trends in the Fossil Record Anthony Hallam 23 Punctuated Equilibrium versus Community Evolution Arthur J. Boucot 24 An Interview with David M. Raup Edited by David Sepkoski and David M. Raup 25 Paleontology in the Twenty-first Century David Jablonski 26 Punctuations and Paradigms: Has Paleobiology Been through a Paradigm Shift? Michael Ruse