Identification of the Mode of Evolution in Incomplete Carbonate Successions
N. Hohmann, J. R. Koelewijn, P. Burgess, E. Jarochowska
This study examines how stratigraphic incompleteness affects the recovery of evolutionary modes from fossil time series, finding that prolonged gaps, not stratigraphic position, most strongly influence trait evolution.
bioRxiv · Dec 18, 2023Evolutionary Biology