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SUBMITTER: Landis MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5740653 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Landis Michael J MJ Schraiber Joshua G JG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171107 50
The relative importance of different modes of evolution in shaping phenotypic diversity remains a hotly debated question. Fossil data suggest that stasis may be a common mode of evolution, while modern data suggest some lineages experience very fast rates of evolution. One way to reconcile these observations is to imagine that evolution proceeds in pulses, rather than in increments, on geological timescales. To test this hypothesis, we developed a maximum-likelihood framework for fitting Lévy pr ...[more]