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New take on the Red Queen

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Biologists have assumed that natural selection shapes larger patterns of evolution through interactions such as competition and predation. These patterns may instead be determined by rare, stochastic speciation.

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Figure 1: Red Queen put to the test.

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  1. Michael J. Benton is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK. mike.benton@bristol.ac.uk,

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Benton, M. New take on the Red Queen. Nature 463, 306–307 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463306a

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