Comment on "Statistical Independence of Escalatory Ecological Trends in Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrates"
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- 10 November 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 314 (5801) , 925
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1130419
Abstract
Madin et al . (Reports, 12 May 2006, p. 897) reported that escalation has not been an important cause of biological change throughout the history of life. However, they evaluated the escalation hypothesis with inappropriate data. First, global-scale data integrate heterogeneous signals that obscure the economic context of life. Second, diversity data cannot yield information about selection and adaptation.Keywords
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