scholarly journals Living Fossils

1892 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 223-223
Author(s):  
Erwin H. Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Living Fossils

scholarly journals The living fossil concept: reply to Turner

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Lidgard ◽  
Alan C. Love
Keyword(s):  
Complex Problem ◽  
Morphological Stability ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Living Fossil ◽  
Living Fossils ◽  
Tadpole Shrimps ◽  
Evolutionary Stasis

AbstractDespite the iconic roles of coelacanths, cycads, tadpole shrimps, and tuataras as taxa that demonstrate a pattern of morphological stability over geological time, their status as living fossils is contested. We responded to these controversies with a recommendation to rethink the function of the living fossil concept (Lidgard and Love in Bioscience 68:760–770, 2018). Concepts in science do useful work beyond categorizing particular items and we argued that the diverse and sometimes conflicting criteria associated with categorizing items as living fossils represent a complex problem space associated with answering a range of questions related to prolonged evolutionary stasis. Turner (Biol Philos 34:23, 2019) defends the living concept against a variety of recent skeptics, but his criticism of our approach relies on a misreading of our main argument. This misreading is instructive because it brings into view the value of three central themes for rethinking the living fossil concept—the function of concepts in biology outside of categorization, the methodological importance of distinguishing parts and wholes in conceptualizing evolutionary phenomena, and articulating diverse explanatory goals associated with these phenomena.

Living fossils

1985 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-0
Author(s):  
J. H. Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Living Fossils

‘He was a good hammer, was he’: Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-265
Author(s):  
Trinidad Guzmán-González
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
General Reference ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Living Fossils ◽  
Gender System

This chapter investigates assumptions that the gender system peculiar to present-day Southwest English might have its origins in similar patterns in that area in Middle English. The present-day dialect uses masculine pronouns as the general reference for most nouns denoting inanimate and countable referents, so that it is not the default gender as in the standard. On the basis of all the textual files specifically localised as Southwest in the relevant subsections of LAEME, the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts (HC) and the Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C), the author investigates whether the seeds of these systems might already have been present in the ME ancestors of those dialects, but concludes that this is not the case – in the Middle English Southwest texts, it can already be considered as the default gender for all nouns denoting non-living things (barring a small number of exceptions discussed in detail). What this investigation ultimately demonstrates is that traditional dialects are not living fossils, and have had their own share of extra-linguistic circumstances to affect them in their long histories.

Horseshoe Crabs: “Living Fossils” Imperiled in the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark L. Botton ◽  
B. Akbar John ◽  
Ruth H. Carmichael ◽  
Faridah Mohamad ◽  
Punyasloke Bhadury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Living Fossils ◽  
Horseshoe Crabs
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