Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene

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. I...

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Other Authors: Nehm, Ross H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Budd, Ann F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Topics in Geobiology, 30
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8215-3
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505 0 |a Palaeobiological Research in the Cibao Valley of the Northern Dominican Republic -- An Overview of the Regional Geology and Stratigraphy of the Neogene Deposits of the Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic -- Constraints on Late Miocene Shallow Marine Seasonality for the Central Caribbean Using Oxygen Isotope and Sr/Ca Ratios in a Fossil Coral -- Assessing the Effects of Taphonomic Processes on Palaeobiological Patterns using Turbinid Gastropod Shells and Opercula -- Early Evolution of the Montastraea “annularis” Species Complex (Anthozoa: Scleractinia): Evidence from the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic -- Evolutionary Patterns Within the Reef Coral Siderastrea in the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic -- Neogene Evolution of the Reef Coral Species Complex Montastraea “cavernosa” -- The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the ‘Prunum maoense Group’ -- Assessing Community Change in Miocene to Pliocene Coral Assemblages of the Northern Dominican Republic -- Mollusc Assemblage Variability in the Río Gurabo Section (Dominican Republic Neogene): Implications for Species-Level Stasis -- The Impact of Fossils from the Northern Dominican Republic on Origination Estimates for Miocene and Pliocene Caribbean Reef Corals -- Science Education and the Dominican Republic Project -- The Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (“NMITA”) Database: Integrating Data from the Dominican Republic Project. 
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