Bernard J Crespi, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001665
Species selection is a hypothesized cause of macroevolutionary trends or stasis, which requires that variation among taxa in their traits causes variation in their speciation and extinction rates.
Keywords: species selection; macroevolution; speciation; extinction
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