Abstract:The unified neutral theory of biodiversity states that random processes and stochastic events drive species abundance and turnover and that each lineage has an equal probability of speciation. Predictions based on this model have been tested only a few times using evolutionary rates. We used an individual-based approach to estimate the waiting times to extinction (the time between one extinction event and the next) and compare those with the neutral model. We calculated the speciation and extinction rates for … Show more
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