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Mixed evidence for early bursts of morphological evolution in extant clades

Macroevolutionary theory predicts high rates of evolution should occur early in a clade's history as species exploit ecological opportunity. Evidence from the fossil record has shown a high prevalence of early bursts in morphological evolution, but recent work has provided little evidence for e...

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Autor principal: Puttick, M. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29285828
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13236