Study suggests statistical 'noise' affects perceived evolutionary rates

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Oct 3, 2024, 3:24 pm316 pts
For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods—say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that "younger" groups of organisms, in evolutionary terms, have higher rates of speciation, extinction and body size…

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