Darwin's manufactory hypothesis is confirmed and predicts the extinction risk of extant birds.

In the Origin of Species Darwin hypothesized that the "manufactory" of species operates at different rates in different lineages and that the richness of taxonomic units is autocorrelated across levels of the taxonomic hierarchy. We confirm the manufactory hypothesis using a database of al...

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Main Authors: David G Haskell, Anupam Adhikari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2674221?pdf=render