A test of whether rates of speciation were unusually high during the Cambrian radiation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1477, 2001, Pages 1707-1714

  Lieberman, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambrian radiation; Speciation rates; Stochastic framework; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0035934313     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1712     Document Type: Article

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