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Macroevolution of arboreality in salamanders [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 AbstractEvolutionary theory predicts that selection in distinct microhabitats generates correlations between morphological and ecological traits, and may increase both phenotypic and taxonomic diversity. However, some microhabitats exert unique selective pressures that act as a restraining force on macroevolutionary patterns of diversification. In this
Erica K. Baken, Dean C. Adams
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Unifying macroecology and macroevolution to answer fundamental questions about biodiversity [PDF]
, 2019 The study of biodiversity started as a single unified field that spanned both ecology and evolution and both macro and micro phenomena. But over the 20th century, major trends drove ecology and evolution apart and pushed an emphasis towards the micro ...
Overcast, Isaac +58 more
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The Macroevolutionary Consequences of Niche Construction in Microbial Metabolism
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Microorganisms display a stunning metabolic diversity. Understanding the origin of this diversity requires understanding how macroevolutionary processes such as innovation and diversification play out in the microbial world.
Djordje Bajić +7 more
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, 2013 What determines the transition of a society from one level of development to another? One of the most fundamental causes is the global technological trans-formations. Among all major technological breakthroughs in history the most important are the three production revolutions: 1) the Agrarian Revolution; 2) the Industrial Revolution and 3) the ...
Grinin, Leonid, Grinin, Anton
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SiPhyNetwork: An R package for simulating phylogenetic networks
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Gene flow is increasingly recognized as an important macroevolutionary process. The many mechanisms that contribute to gene flow (e.g. introgression, hybridization, lateral gene transfer) uniquely affect the diversification of dynamics of species, making
Joshua A. Justison +2 more
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The Cambrian Explosion: macroevolution and biomineralization
Academia Biology, 2023 Recent advances in our understanding of the Cambrian evolutionary diversification event (Cambrian Explosion) show that, although eumetazoan stem taxa were present in the late Proterozoic, a tremendous burst of macroevolutionary change occurred near the ...
Mark A. S. McMenamin
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Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro and macroevolution
, 2023 International audienceExplaining broad molecular, phenotypic, and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales.
Pennell, Matt +16 more
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Planktic foraminiferal diversity: logistic growth overprinted by a varying environment
Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2016 This study statistically assesses the relationship between the planktic foraminiferal long-term diversity pattern (~170 Ma to Recent) and four major paleobiological diversification models: (i) the ‘Red Queen’ (Van Valen, 1973; Raup et al., 1973), (ii ...
Andrés L. Cárdenas-Rozo +1 more
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Experimental macroevolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016 The convergence of several disparate research programmes raises the possibility that the long-term evolutionary processes of innovation and radiation may become amenable to laboratory experimentation. Ancestors might be resurrected directly from naturally stored propagules or tissues, or indirectly from the expression of ancestral genes in contemporary
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