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Model Adequacy and Microevolutionary Explanations for Stasis in the Fossil Record.

The American naturalist - 1 Apr 2018

Voje Kjetil Lysne, Starrfelt Jostein, Liow Lee Hsiang

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Long-term phenotypic stasis is frequently observed in the fossil record, but not readily predicted from microevolutionary theory. To test competing explanations for stasis on macroevolutionary timescales we need reliably estimated parameters from appropriate evolutionary models that adequately describe the evolutionary trait dynamics. Here, we develop tests to assess the adequacy of the most commonly used stasis...

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PMID: 29570405
DOI: 10.1086/696265

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