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Index
Title Page Dedication Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter I. The Iconography of an Expectation
A Prologue in Pictures The Ladder and the Cone: Iconographies of Progress Replaying Life’s Tape: the Crucial experiment Inset: The Meanings of Diversity and Disparity
Chapter II. A Background for the Burgess Shale
Life Before the Burgess: the Cambrian Explosion and the Origin of Animals Life After the Burgess: Soft-Bodied Faunas as Windows into the Past The Setting of the Burgess Shale
Where Why: The Means of Preservation Who, When: the History of Discovery
Chapter III. Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life
A Quiet Revolution A Methodology of Research The Chronology of a Transformation Inset: Taxonomy and the Status of Phyla Inset: The Classification and Anatomy of Arthropods The Burgess Drama Act 1. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974
The Conceptual World That Whittington Faced Marrella: First Doubts Yohoia: A Suspicion Grows
Act 2. A New View Takes Hold: Homage to Opabinia, 1975 Act 3. The Revision Expands: The Success of a Research Team, 1975-1978
Setting a Strategy for a Generalization Mentors and Students Conway Morris’s Field Season in Walcott’s Cabinets: A Hint Becomes a Generality, and the Transformation Solidifies Derek Briggs and Bivalved Arthropods: The Not-So-Flashy but Just-As-Necessary Final Piece
Act 4. Completion and Codification of an Argument: Naraoia and Aysheaia, 1977-1978 Act 5. The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia, 1979-Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers)
The Ongoing Saga of Burgess Arthropods
Orphans and Specialists A Present from Santa Claws
Continuing the March of Weird Wonders
Wiwaxia Anomalocaris
Coda Summary Statement on the Bestiary of the Burgess Shale
Disparity Followed by Decimation: a General Statement Assessment of Genealogical Relationships for Burgess Organisms
The Burgess Shale as a Cambrian Generality
Predators and Prey: the Functional World of Burgess Arthropods The Ecology of the Burgess Fauna The Burgess as an Early World-Wide Fauna
The Two Great Problems of the Burgess Shale
The Origin of the Burgess Fauna The Decimation of the Burgess Fauna
Chapter IV. Walcott’s Vision and the Nature of History
The Basis for Walcott’s Allegiance to the Cone of Diversity
A Biographical Note The Mundane Reason for Walcott’s Failure The Deeper Rationale for Walcott’s Shoehorn
Walcott’s Persona Walcott’s General View of Life’s History and Evolution The Burgess Shoehorn and Walcott’s Struggle with the Cambrian Explosion
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Inset: A Plea for the High Status of Natural History 280
Chapter V. Possible Worlds: The Power of “Just History”
A Story of Alternatives General Patterns that Illustrate Contingency
The Burgess Pattern of Maximal Initial Proliferation Mass Extinction
Seven Possible Worlds
Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell The First Fauna of Multicellular Animals The First Fauna of the Cambrian Explosion The Subsequent Cambrian Origin of the Modern Fauna The Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates Passing the Torch to Mammals The Origin of Homo Sapiens
An Epilogue on Pikaia
Bibliography Credits Index Other Titles By Stephen Jay Gould Copyright
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