A Test of Simpson’s “Rule of the Survival of the Relatively Unspecialized” Using Fossil Crinoids

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2004-09-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geology

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  DOI 10.1086/423673PMID 15459876
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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