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    Punctuated equilibrium (category Speciation)
    especially peripatric speciation as applied to the fossil record. Although the sudden appearance of species and its relationship to speciation was proposed and...
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  • Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine in 1996, and New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record in 1995. "Advisory board: Current...
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    Megalodon (category Fossil taxa described in 1835)
    Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013. Benton, M. J.; Pearson, P. N. (2001). "Speciation in the fossil record". Trends in Ecology and Evolution...
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  • Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for...
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  • geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model: 86  – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations...
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  • allo-parapatric speciation A mode of speciation where divergence occurs in allopatry and is completed upon secondary contact of the populations--effectively...
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    living fossil is an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the fossil...
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  • In 1995, D. H. Erwin, et al. published a major work—New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record—which compiled 58 studies of fossil speciation (between...
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  • Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor (category Events in biological evolution)
    due to its fossil incompleteness and the proximity to the human-chimpanzee split, the exact position of Ardipithecus in the fossil record is unclear....
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    Hominini (redirect from The human clade)
    Sahelanthropus and Orrorin existed during the estimated duration of the ancestral chimpanzee–human speciation events, within the range of eight to four million years...
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    Peripatric speciation is a mode of speciation in which a new species is formed from an isolated peripheral population.: 105  Since peripatric speciation resembles...
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  • This list of fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods...
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    seagrass. The fossil record of Diadema is extremely poor, consisting only of spines that possibly belong to the genus, some of which go back to the Miocene...
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    Marcellus Formation (category Oil-bearing shales in the United States)
    speciation in the fossil record. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-08248-7. Koutsoukos, Eduardo (2005). Applied Stratigraphy (Topics in...
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    divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading to speciation. Divergent evolution...
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    Stephen Jay Gould (category Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
    the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which describes the rate of speciation in the fossil record as occurring relatively rapidly, which then alternates...
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    encephalization seen in fossils like the Bodo cranium is thought to have been a driving force in the speciation of anatomically modern humans. Both the Bodo cranium...
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    The 21st century has seen a resurgence in the study of speciation, with new techniques such as molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Speciation has...
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    speciation has been observed in present-day organisms, and past speciation events are recorded in fossils. Scientists have documented the formation of five new...
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    organisms undergoing speciation in novel habitats or small populations. As a result, the periods of stasis in the fossil record correspond to the parental population...
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    Koinophilia (category Speciation)
    periods of time. Thus the fossil record suggests that evolution occurs in bursts, interspersed by long periods of evolutionary stagnation in so-called punctuated...
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    importance of fossil markers for correlating strata; he created the first geologic map of England. Other influential applications of stratigraphy in the early...
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  • Anagenesis (category Speciation)
    evolving species over time. The second process, speciation, is closely associated with cladogenesis. Speciation includes the actual separation of lineages...
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    Adaptive radiation (category Speciation)
    trait values in their corresponding environments. Rapid speciation: presence of one or more bursts in the emergence of new species around the time that ecological...
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    the great apes. They also assumed the first traits to evolve after speciation related to intelligence: big brains, tool use, and complex language. In...
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  • Diversification rates are the rates at which new species form (the Speciation rate, λ) and living species go extinct (the extinction rate, μ). Diversification...
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  • Quasillites (category Fossils of the United States)
    Indiana. J. J. Sepkoski Jr. 1998. Rates of speciation in the fossil record. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 353(1366):315-326...
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    Onondaga Limestone (category Limestone formations of the United States)
    Formation". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 26 May 2008. Anstey, Robert L.; Erwin, Douglas H. (1995). New approaches to speciation in the fossil record. New...
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    ancestors. In 1859, when Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, the fossil record was poorly known. Darwin described the perceived...
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    Genevievella (category Fossils of the United States)
    Sepkoski Jr., J.J. (1998). "Rates of speciation in the fossil record". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences....
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