Bouwe R. Reijenga

Jan 23, 2025 | cell.com | Bouwe R. Reijenga |Roger Close

Keywords speciation extinction macroevolution sampling bias fossil record Phanerozoic age-rate scaling Results and discussion The presence of age-rate scaling (ARS) is a long-studied phenomenon in paleobiology,5,6 and it bears close resemblance to the problem of “spurious” self-correlation when a ratio is plotted against its denominator across ecology, evolution, geology, and statistics.7,8,9,10,11 For instance, when an evolutionary rate such as the number of extinctions per million years...

Oct 28, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Ferran Sayol |Bouwe R. Reijenga |Joseph A. Tobias |Alex Pigot

AbstractThe capacity of organisms to adapt to vacant niches or changing environments is limited by physical constraints on morphological evolution. Substantial progress has been made in identifying how these constraints shape the form and function of producers (plants), but our understanding of evolutionary limits in consumers (animals) remains highly limited, in part because the requisite data have not been available at sufficient scale.