Niles Eldredge

Author of The Triumph of Evolution : And the Failure of Creationism

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About the Author

Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist formerly on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History. He is also the author of The Triumph of Evolutionand the Failure of Creationism (2001) and Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis (1998).

Includes the names: Niles Eldrige, Niles Eldredge, Niles Eldredge, Niles Elderidge, ナイルズ・エルドリッジ

Image credit: Photo adapted from Denis Finnin, American Museum of Natural History

Works by Niles Eldredge

Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life (2005) 156 copies

Fossils: The Evolution and Extinction of Species (1991) 122 copies

Why We Do It (2004) 117 copies

Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory (1995) 107 copies

Punctuated Equilibrium (2007) 107 copies

Time Frames: The Re-Thinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria (1985) 89 copies

The Pattern of Evolution (1998) 86 copies

Life in the Balance (1998) 82 copies

The Miner's Canary (1991) 82 copies

The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism (1982) 71 copies

Dominion (1995) 55 copies

The Fossil Factory: A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils (1989) 48 copies

Life Pulse: Episodes from the Story of the Fossil Record (1987) 46 copies

Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life (2014) 40 copies

Triumph of Discovery : A Chronicle of Great Adventures in Science (1995) — Author — 36 copies

Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought (1985) 34 copies

Macroevolutionary Dynamics: Species, Niches, and Adaptive Peaks (1989) 32 copies

Charles Darwin and the Mystery of Mysteries (2010) 29 copies

Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and… (2015) 29 copies

Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set) (2002) 28 copies

Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process: Method and Theory in Comparative Biology (1980) 28 copies

The Myths of Human Evolution (1982) 23 copies

The Natural History Reader in Evolution (1987) 6 copies

Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis (1992) 6 copies

Evolutionary Theory: A Hierarchical Perspective (2016) 5 copies

Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future (2014) 4 copies

Interactions: The biological context of social systems (1992) 4 copies

Los Mitos de la evolución humana (1986) 3 copies

Darwin 1809-2009 : alla scoperta dell'albero della vita [Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 12 febbraio - 3 marzo 2009] (2009) 2 copies

CALMONIID TRILOBITES OF THE LOWER DEVONIAN SCAPHIOCOELIA ZONE OF BOLIVIA, WITH REMARKS OF RELATED SPECIES. 1 copy

'Confessions of a Darwinist' in Virginia Quarterly Review, spring 2006 1 copy

Życie na krawędzi. Rozwój cywilizacji i zagłada gatunków 1 copy

Strutture del tempo (1991) 1 copy

Fossils by Niles Eldredge (1996-10-28) (1758) 1 copy

Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism 1 copy

Darwin À descoberta da árvore da vida 1 copy

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Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) (1970) — Contributor — 659 copies

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Birthdate: 1943-08-25
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
Education: Columbia University (AB | Anthropology | 1965)
Columbia University (PhD | Geology | 1969)
Occupations: paleontologist (American Museum of Natural History | 1969- )
Organizations: American Museum of Natural History
City University of New York
Columbia University
Biodiversity Foundation for Africa
Paleontological Society
Palaeontological Association (show all 9)
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Zoology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Awards and honors: Schuchert Award (1979)
Lappe Award (1997)

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Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould

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davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |

Charles Darwin and the Mystery of Mysteries by Susan Pearson

Intelligent, interesting, well-illustrated with photographs. The historical notes are a really good effort, placing Darwin's life in the context of other events, and only a little bit sloppy.

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themulhern | 1 other review | Jul 30, 2023 |

Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About… by Niles Eldredge

Large format book with lovely photos of actual fossils on every page. Too many typos, and often it is quite unclear how the particular fossil illustration relates to the point being made. The cover has an impressive 3-D quality. The author has a point to make; he wants to advance his own theories about how and why new species are formed. The theories are fine as far as that goes.

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themulhern | May 28, 2021 |

Darwin. Alla scoperta dell'albero della vita

Primo caso in cui pur conoscendo personalmente l'autore mi innamoro a prima vista del suo modo di scrivere. Non vedevoo l'ora di tornare a casa per continuare a leggere!
Un libro molto utile per avvicinarsi alla figura di Darwin, anche in vista del bicentenario della nascita nel 2009. Sempre entusiasticamente coinvolto e coinvolgente, Eldredge non si limita a raccontare una favoletta, ma introduce il lettore a un mondo complesso come quello vittoriano del pre-darwinismo, permettendo di assaporare la storia di uno dei più grandi pensatori di tutti i tempi.… (more)

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Eva_Filoramo | May 3, 2018 |

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