NEOPROTEROZOICGEOBIOLOGYANDPALEOBIOLOGY by Shuhai Xiao, Alan J. Kaufman

By Shuhai Xiao, Alan J. Kaufman

This quantity provides a pattern of perspectives and visions between a few of the transforming into numbers of Neoproterozoic staff. It contains a set of multidisciplinary stories at the Neoproterozoic fossil list, evolutionary developmental biology of animals, and molecular clock estimates of phylogenetic divergences. those issues are of continuous curiosity to geoscientists and bioscientists who're intrigued via the deep background of the Earth and its population.

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3B inset). 35; Figs. 3B, 4). This indicator of low disparity is also in stark contrast with high species per formation values (Fig. 3C), and is indicative of taxonomic over-splitting (see above). 70). This plateau is apparent in Fig. 3 A–B, but not in Fig. 4. This is because the convex hulls in Fig. 4 to a large extent reflect sampling intensity as well as morphological disparity in each bin. 48) (Figs. 3B, 4). This morphological contraction, together with taxonomic decrease (Knoll, 1994; Vidal and Moczydlowska-Vidal, 1997; Xiao, 2004a), indicates Figure 3.

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