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Species in the primate fossil record
Author(s) -
Gingerich Philip D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/evan.21400
Subject(s) - fossil record , variation (astronomy) , evolutionary biology , population , biology , ecology , subdivision , interpretation (philosophy) , geography , paleontology , archaeology , demography , computer science , physics , sociology , astrophysics , programming language
Species in the fossil record are population pools of genetic and phenetic variation at a place and time, morphologically recognizable and distinguishable from others by empirical standards. Change through time can be substantial, requiring subdivision of lineages that becomes more arbitrary as they become more complete. Evolution is about form, space, and time; it is about variation and change. Interpretation of species in the fossil record touches all of these.