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Survivorship Bias Explains Age-Dependent Extinction in Fossil Genera
Mikhail Tikhonov, Kim Sneppen, Stefan Bornholdt, Sergei Maslov
The paper shows that survivorship bias, not biological changes, explains age-dependent extinction patterns in fossil genera using a one-parameter model.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.21.739780