History is written by the victors: The effect of the push of the past on the fossil record
Abstract
Survivorship biases can generate remarkable apparent rate heterogeneities through time in otherwise homogeneous birth-death models of phylogenies. They are a potential explanation for many striking patterns seen in the fossil record and molecular phylogenies. One such bias is the "push of the past": clades that survived a substantial length of time are likely to have experienced a high rate of early diversification. This creates the illusion of...
Paper Details
Title
History is written by the victors: The effect of the push of the past on the fossil record
Published Date
Sep 26, 2018
Journal
Volume
72
Issue
11
Pages
2276 - 2291
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