Growth and Diversification Patterns

Fossils potentially provide direct evidence on how changes in growth strategies may have affected diversification patterns in geologic time. New strategies may have allowed some species to exploit new ecological opportunities or contributed to their demise. The evolutionary patterns of groups of org...

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Published inEmbryos in Deep Time p. 105
Main Author Marcelo Sánchez
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of California Press 04.03.2012
Edition1
Subjects
Animal development
Animals
Biological sciences
Biology
Climate change
Developmental biology
Developmental stages
Ecology
Environmental sciences
Environmental studies
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary studies
Evolutionary theories
Extinct species
Fossils
Growth and development
Larvae
Larval development
Mammals
Mass extinction events
Palaeontology
Paleobiology
Paleontology
Species extinction
Taphonomy
Zoology
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Summary:Fossils potentially provide direct evidence on how changes in growth strategies may have affected diversification patterns in geologic time. New strategies may have allowed some species to exploit new ecological opportunities or contributed to their demise. The evolutionary patterns of groups of organisms in geologic time, commonly referred to as clade dynamics, are the subject of intense research in the sector of the paleontological community working with invertebrate animals. Work in this area involves in many cases large databases and mathematical models based on several variables. Diversification rates, meaning how fast or slow the number of species in a group
ISBN:0520271939
9780520271937