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Steven M. Stanley
Researcher at University of Hawaii
Publications - 84
Citations - 9898
Steven M. Stanley is an academic researcher from University of Hawaii. The author has contributed to research in topics: Extinction & Extinction event. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 83 publications receiving 9494 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven M. Stanley include Johns Hopkins University.
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Macroevolution, pattern and process
TL;DR: In this article, the author argues that only "quantum speciation" (rapid and radically divergent) can explain the story of life revealed in the fossil record; macroevolution, he contends, cannot be attributed to microevolutionary forces such as mutation, genetic drift and natural selection.
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Secular oscillations in the carbonate mineralogy of reef-building and sediment-producing organisms driven by tectonically forced shifts in seawater chemistry
TL;DR: Hardie et al. as discussed by the authors have shown that high-Mg calcite should precipitate along with aragonite, as it does in today's aragonitic sea.
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A theory of evolution above the species level.
TL;DR: Rates of speciation can be estimated for living taxa by means of the equation for exponential increase, and are clearly higher for mammals than for bivalve mollusks.
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An explanation for cope's rule.
TL;DR: Most modern interpreters of Cope's Rule have attributed its validity solely to certain fundamental advantages of size increase, at least one of which is alleged to have operated within most evolutionary lineages.