J. John Sepkoski Papers 1969-1999

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J. John Sepkoski Papers 1969-1999

The Sepkoski Papers are a comprehensive collection of Sepkoski's professional correspondence and research notes.

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Sepkoski, J. John,

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Trained as a stratigrapher and paleontologist at Harvard (Ph.D., 1977), Jack Sepkoski accepted his first academic appointment at the University of Rochester while he was still working on his degree. In 1978, he and David Raup were lured away to the University of Chicago, where they rapidly helped establish that school as the center of the new quantitative paleobiology. Sepkoski is best known for his quantitative analyses of the history and diversity of life and his efforts to define the shape of...