Stoch-aptation: a new term in the science of evolution
Following two seminal papers published in Paleobiology by Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba several decades ago, I suggest a new term (stoch-aptation) to refer to those individual traits or sets of traits that provide, just by chance, fitness advantages to species when faced with catastrophes (i...
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Language: | English |
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Queen's University
2015-06-01
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Series: | Ideas in Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/article/view/5620 |