Team Publications

Publications by the members of the Paleosynthesis Team and Scientific Advisory Board

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05MAY 2025
Team Publications
A history of the world imperfectly kept
“The fossil record is our only direct source of evidence for how life on Earth has waxed and waned over its long history. However, the fossil record is also incomplete and biased in many ways, after passing through biological, geological, and socio-economic filters. This means that we only possess snapshots of information, relating to specific […]
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28APR 2025
Team Publications
Levels of selection and macroevolutions
“The fitness of groups is often considered to be the average fitness among constituent members. This assumption has been useful for developing models of multilevel selection, but its uncritical adoption has held back our understanding of how multilevel selection actually works in nature. If group fitness is only equal to mean member fitness, then it […]
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28APR 2025
Team Publications
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors
“The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was amongst the largest herbivores once engineering the European landscape on a continental scale. In combination with the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Pleis tocene, the species was an integral part of the control regimes that shaped European flora and fauna. With the human-facilitated extinction of the straight-tusked elephant, these landscape-forming […]“The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was amongst the largest herbivores once engineering the European landscape on a continental scale. In combination with the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Pleis tocene, the species was an integral part of the control regimes that shaped European flora and fauna. With the human-facilitated extinction of the straight-tusked elephant, these landscape-forming […]
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28APR 2025
News
Introduction: Fifty years of Paleobiology
“Paleobiology was founded 50 years ago to provide an outlet for biological paleontology, with an emphasis on investigating evolutionary patterns and processes that could apply generally across the history of life. While the intellectual and financial prospects for Paleobiology were uncertain in the beginning (Sepkoski 2012; Valentine 2009), this 50th anniversary issue testifies to its […]
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28APR 2025
News
Data equity in paleobiology
A new DDCP publication! “In the last 50 years, the field of paleobiology has undergone a computational revolution that opened multiple new avenues for recording, storing, and analyzing vital data on the history of life on Earth. With these advances, the amount of data available for research has grown, but so too has our responsibility […]
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14APR 2025
Team Publications
Record of Foraminifera test composition
“Marine calcifiers produce calcareous structures (e.g. shells, skeletons or tests) and are therefore sensitive to ocean chemistry. Nevertheless, the long-term evolutionary consequences of marine carbonate changes are not well understood. This article compares calcareous and non-calcareous responses to ocean chemistry changes throughout the Phanerozoic Eon (541 million years ago to present). To accomplish this, we […]“Marine calcifiers produce calcareous structures (e.g. shells, skeletons or tests) and are therefore sensitive to ocean chemistry. Nevertheless, the long-term evolutionary consequences of marine carbonate changes are not well understood. This article compares calcareous and non-calcareous responses to ocean chemistry changes throughout the Phanerozoic Eon (541 million years ago to present). To accomplish this, we […]
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