Patterns and implications of stasis in trilobites

Stasis may be operationally defined as the occurrence of little or no evolutionary change during an interval of geological time, and is an important consequence of punctuated equilibria. Studies of stasis in the fossil record of necessity address only morphological stasis, and that only in the subse...

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Main Author: McCormick, Timothy
Published: University of Glasgow 1995
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637480