Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Polka Dots Message-ID: <450@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-May-85 16:49:36 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.450 Posted: Mon May 13 16:49:36 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 20:20:36 EDT References: <1011@uwmacc.UUCP> <444@psivax.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Distribution: net Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 29 In article <444@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) writes: >> >>> [Stanley Friesen] >>> Not true, biologists have found a number of species which >>> simply did not exist 300 yrs ago. >> >>I'm sure this is true. I'm equally confident that you will list some >>of them for us, and that you will tell us where we can go read about >>them for ourselves. > > I have, in fact, been looking for the book, but I cannot seem >to find it at the local university library. I have also forgotten the >title(I thought it was "The Tempo and Mode of Evolution", but that is >a different book. The one I am looking for is a well written >"monograph" on the punctuated equilibrium theory, with emphasis on >the evidence for rapid evolutionary change. I found it originally at >the University of Kansas, and I think I also found it at Berkeley. >Can anyone out there find it? As a matter of fact I am very lucky, someone else just happened to post the name and author of the book I was refering to. It is "Macroevolution: Pattern and Process" by S.M. Stanley. You might also try "The New Evolutionary Timetable" by the same author. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen