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Evolution of single characters in the Jurassic ammonite Kosmoceras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

David M. Raup  and
Rex E. Crick
David M. Raup
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605
Rex E. Crick
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019
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Abstract

The classic biometrical study of phyletic evolution in Kosmoceras (Brinkmann 1929) is evaluated using unpublished raw data provided by Professor Brinkmann. Most morphological characters show statistically significant changes over time yet it is difficult to provide an unequivocal biological interpretation for these changes. In a few cases, runs tests indicate that evolution was nonrandom in the sense that fewer reversals in the direction of evolution occurred than would be predicted from a null hypothesis based on a random walk. These cases suggest persistence of natural selection regimes for fairly long periods of time. In other cases, and with other kinds of testing, the random walk model cannot be rejected although failure to reject the hypothesis does not justify its acceptance! Thus, the contribution of random factors (either genetic drift or selection in a randomly changing environment) cannot be assessed with confidence. It is problematical also whether the Kosmoceras series represent significant evolution by phyletic gradualism or just the natural temporal variation that characterizes stasis (sensu Eldredge and Gould 1972).

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Paleobiology , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Spring 1981 , pp. 200 - 215
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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