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beroe avatar beroe commented on June 28, 2024

Some potentially useful citations for this section and for the basal entry...

Casane, D., Laurenti, P., 2013. Why coelacanths are not “living fossils.” BioEssays.
CRISP, M., COOK, L., 2005. Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20, 122–128. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2004.11.010
Grandcolas, P., Nattier, R., Trewick, S., 2014. Relict species: a relict concept? Trends Ecol Evol (Amst) 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.10.002
Gregory, T.R., 2008. Understanding Evolutionary Trees. Evo Edu Outreach 1, 121–137. doi:10.1007/s12052-008-0035-x
Krell, F.T., Cranston, P.S., 2004. Which side of the tree is more basal? Systematic Entomology 29, 279–281.
Mathers, T.C., Hammond, R.L., Jenner, R.A., Hänfling, B., Gómez, A., n.d. Multiple global radiations in tadpoleshrimps challenge the concept of “living fossils” [WWW Document]. peerj.com. URL https://peerj.com/articles/62.pdf (accessed 6.6.13).
Nagalingum, N.S., Marshall, C.R., Quental, T.B., Rai, H.S., Little, D.P., Mathews, S., 2011. Recent synchronous radiation of a living fossil. Science 334, 796–799. doi:10.1126/science.1209926
Omland, K.E., Cook, L.G., Crisp, M.D., 2008. Tree thinking for all biology: the problem with reading phylogenies as ladders of progress. BioEssays 30, 854–867. doi:10.1002/bies.20794

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davelunt avatar davelunt commented on June 28, 2024

Also this by Ed Yong is worth referencing
"The Falsity of Living Fossils: New studies of tadpole shrimp and other organisms show that the term “living fossil” is inaccurate and misleading."
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34927/title/The-Falsity-of-Living-Fossils/

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davelunt avatar davelunt commented on June 28, 2024

I've tidied up the start a little, and added a section on Evolution in LFs, but most of rest of article is still low quality.

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