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Population Biology Models in Macroevolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

J. John Sepkoski Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

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Many aspects of a clade's history are reflected in its pattern of diversity through time. Evolutionary radiation is reflected in increasing diversity; cessation of radiation is reflected in stabilization of diversity; response to perturbation is reflected in rapid loss and then often recovery of diversity; and disappearance is sometimes reflected in attenuated decay of diversity. Often, it is of interest not only to describe the history of a clade's diversity, but also to investigate its dynamics: how various aspects of the history relate to its rates of origination and extinction and the response of these rates to evolutionary innovation, environmental fluctuation, and cladal interaction.

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Copyright © 1991 Paleontological Society 

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