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Explosive Evolution Need Not Follow Mass Extinction

• arclein
In the absence of competition, the common theory goes, surviving species hurry to adapt, evolving new physical attributes to take advantage of newly opened niches in the ecosystem. But that's not what researchers found in graptoloid populations that survived a mass extinctionabout 445 million years ago.

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