Correlations in fossil extinction and origination rates through geological time

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1450, 2000, Pages 1301-1309

  Kirchner, James W ^a   Weil, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Extinction; Fossil record; Macroevolution; Origination; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034617135     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1142     Document Type: Article

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