Publication Date:
2006-11-11
Description:
Madin et al. (Reports, 12 May 2006, p. 897) reported that escalation has not been an important cause of biological change throughout the history of life. However, they evaluated the escalation hypothesis with inappropriate data. First, global-scale data integrate heterogeneous signals that obscure the economic context of life. Second, diversity data cannot yield information about selection and adaptation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dietl, Gregory P -- Vermeij, Geerat J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Nov 10;314(5801):925; author reply 925.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. gpd3@cornell.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17095680" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptation, Biological
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Animals
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Biodiversity
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*Biological Evolution
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*Ecosystem
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*Fossils
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*Invertebrates
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Seawater
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Selection, Genetic
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Statistics as Topic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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