09 Jul 2008

Species Diversity Less Dramatic Than Believed

A study reported in the current issue of Science challenges the long-held belief that diversity of marine species has been increasing continuously since the origin of animals. Dr. Thomas D. Olszewski, a geology and geophysics professor at Texas AandM University, has been a part of the international team that carried out this decade-long study, which concludes that most of the diversification occurred early on - relatively speaking........

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