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New review/essay paper

Posted by pjanhune on 20 Mar 2007 at 08:12 GMT

explosive increase of diversity
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000214#article1.body1.sec1.p12

For a new account on the differences between Proterozoic and Phanerozoic evolution and the events leading to the Cambrian explosion, see the essay of Nicholas Butterfield, Macroevolution and macroecology through deep time, Palaeontology 50, 41-55, 2007.