Causal analysis of rock-biodiversity relationships over the global Phanerozoic challenges rock record bias and common cause hypothesis
Sampled marine biodiversity covaries strongly with sedimentary rock quantity over the Phanerozoic, but the respective contributions of different potential causes remain unsettled. Although regional studies show that rock-record bias accounts for more variation in sampled marine biodiversity than common-cause mechanisms, evaluating this relationship across the global Phanerozoic record remains…
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