Mass extinctions and macroevolution
Mass extinctions are important to macroevolution not only because they involve a sharp increase in extinction intensity over “background” levels, but also because they bring a change in extinction selectivity, and these quantitative and qualitative shifts set the stage for evolutionary recoveries. T...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2005
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Paleobiology
Year: 2005, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 192-210 |
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