Species invasions are pervasive in Earth history, yet the ecological and evolutionary
consequences vary greatly. Ancient invasion events can be organized in a hierarchy of …

In spite of their success during the past several millions of years, recent analyses indicate
that polyploid species may have higher extinction rates than their diploid relatives. The idea …

The upper Silurian, and especially Pridoli epoch is a critical interval for the understanding
the evolution of Earth's biota, since it witnessed series of powerful extinction events, global …

The occupation of new environments by evolutionary lineages is frequently associated with
morphological changes. This covariation of ecotype and phenotype is expected due to the …

Cognition-Based Evolution is the first comprehensive alternative to 20th-century
Neodarwinism, proposing a radical 21st-century evolutionary framework with a novel point …

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Eurypterids are generally considered to comprise a mixture of active nektonic to
nektobenthic predators and benthic scavenger-predators exhibiting a mode of life similar to …

Much of the focus of palaeobiological studies in the last century can be summarized as
seeking to understand how evolutionary lineages occupy new regions of morphological …

Abstract The Late Ordovician mass extinction was an interval of high extinction with inferred
low ecological selectivity, resulting in little change in community structure after the event. In …

The concept that taxon senescence led to the extinction of the heteromorph ammonite genus
Baculites Lamarck, 1799, has a long intellectual pedigree dating to ED Cope and the neo …