Fossils and Evolution Author:T. S. Kemp Rather survey of the extensive data, this book focuses on the ideas, methodology and scope of contemporary palaeobiology. It devotes four chapters to the central principles of the field and then describes in detail five areas of current research: fossils and phylogenetic inference, the mechanism of speciation, taxonomic turnover on the geologic... more »al time-scale, mass-extinctions, and the origin of new taxa.« less