Sentence examples for speciation and extinction from inspiring English sources

Dr Arbuckle and Dr Speed analysed these data by fitting them to a model that estimates how particular traits affect speciation and extinction rates.

Figure 5 presents a diagram of simplified common ancestry, speciation, and extinction among trilobite groups.

Of course, not all studies of speciation and extinction involve hundreds of millions of years and fossils.

Changes in geology, sea-level and climate are hypothesised to have been major driving processes of evolutionary diversification (speciation and extinction) in the Australo-Papuan region.

Current species are a stage in the process of evolution, with their diversity the product of a long series of speciation and extinction events.

Various speciation and extinction metrics have been proposed for rate calculation of modern and fossil taxa.

The final concatenated topology was evaluated using analysis of speciation and extinction in the BiSSE character-independent model [58].

For the relative species richness to be the same throughout the world's oceans would require similar patterns of dispersal, speciation, and extinction geographically.

The rate analyses congruently indicate a reduction in both speciation and extinction rate during the Frasnian stage when compared to the Givetian stage.

The evolution of elaiosomes, a simple trait that facilitates seed dispersal mutualisms with ants, appears to have consequences for speciation and extinction besides providing fitness benefits to plants.

At any rate, non-random taxon sampling will cause errors in estimates of speciation and extinction rates, more so than just incomplete taxon sampling [65], [66].