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Origination, Evolutionary Radiation, and Extinction in the Modern World: The Story of Partulid Tree Snails

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Carole S. Hickman
Carole S. Hickman*
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Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4780 USA
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Charles Darwin's (1859) case for the fact of evolution was as crucial to his theory as was the mechanism he proposed. The idea of natural selection becomes interesting and compelling only in the context of all the great facts of natural history that it explains. Life on earth has changed. New forms have appeared, replacing forms that have ceased to exist. Origination and extinction are two of the great facts of natural history. They underlie the patterning of biological diversity. Case by case, these facts are explained more consistently, more simply, and more compellingly by the mechanisms of evolution than by any set of ad hoc explanations.

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Section 3: Evidence for Evolution
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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 11: Evolution: Investigating the Evidence, 2nd ed. , 2002 , pp. 211 - 226
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Copyright © 1999, 2002 by The Paleontological Society 

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