Article
Survival without recovery after mass extinctions.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jun 2002
Jablonski David
Abstract excerpt
Because many survivors of mass extinctions do not participate in postrecovery diversifications, and therefore fall into a pattern that can be termed "Dead Clade Walking" (DCW), the effects of mass extinctions extend beyond the losses observed during the event itself. Analyses at two taxonomic levels provide a first-order test of the prevalence of DCWs by using simple and very conservative operational criteria....
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