Ediacaran biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life
The Ediacara biota—the first large, complex organisms to evolve on Earth—disappeared prior to the radiation of animals during the Cambrian Period. Here, Muscente et al. perform network analysis of Ediacaran fossils and show that there were two global extinction events before the Cambrian radiation....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08837-3 |