The role of phyletic change in the evolution ofPseudocubus vema(Radiolaria)
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Paleobiology
- Vol. 1 (4), 359-370
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300002669
Abstract
While the importance of allopatric speciation in the fossil record has long been underestimated, phyletic change within single unbranching lineages also occurs. The 50% increase in thoracic width observed in the radiolarian speciesPseudocubus vemafrom an Antarctic deep-sea core is a clear example of a long-term phyletic trend in a continuous fossil sequence. Phyletic change inP. vemaoccurred at varying rates, but changes in the morphologic rate of evolution do not correspond to any obvious breaks in the fossil record such as would be indicated by missing segments of the core's magnetic stratigraphy. Variation in thoracic width, as measured by the coefficient of variation, does not depend on the morphologic rate of evolution, proportional rate of evolution, nor the amount of time required for the width to change by one standard deviation, so much as it depends on whether change was accomplished by addition or removal of extreme phenotypes to or from the population.Keywords
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