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Identifying generalizable patterns of extinction selectivity is crucial for understanding the mechanisms driving extinction processes. Differences in the trait composition of extinct surviving species...

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Punctuated equilibria at 50: half a century of stasis, cladogenesis, and macroevolutionary insights - Volume 51 Issue 4

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A Warming Climate Could Decimate Mollusk Populations in the Western Atlantic

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On the basis of stasis: documentation of taxon durations in paleontology and the necessity of museum voucher specimens

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The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse

The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...

Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, lik...

Phylogenetic position and stratigraphic uncertainty of a new flexible crinoid from the Ordovician–Silurian boundary of Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada)

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The molecular basis of punctuated equilibria: the roles of developmental genes in stasis and speciation

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