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The Comparative Method is Not Macroevolution: Across-Species Evidence for Within-Species Process.

Systematic biology - 13 Oct 2021

Olson Mark E

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It is common for studies that employ the comparative method for the study of adaptation, that is, documentation of potentially adaptive across-species patterns of trait-environment or trait-trait correlation, to be designated as "macroevolutionary." Authors are justified in using "macroevolution" in this way by appeal to definitions such as "evolution above the species level." I argue that regarding the...

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PMID: 33410880
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa086

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