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Paleobiologists working in the area of macroevolutionary theory have made important contributions to our understanding of evolution by emphasizing how research programs that study evolutionary patterns of speciation and extinction within and among clades can be used to infer evolutionary processes (reviewed in Eldredge and Cracraft, 1980; Vrba, 1983, 1989; Lieberman, 1995; and refs. therein). It is partly ontological and epistemological advances that have made it possible to utilize such pattern-based approaches to study evolutionary processes. Among the ontological advances is the recognition that species are fundamental units in nature that are characterized by distinct birth and death points (Ghiselin, 1974; Hull, 1980), and they are also stable and cohesive throughout their existence (Eldredge, 1985, 1989; Vrba, 1989, 1995). Another advance that arises from this is the recognition that differences in rates of speciation and extinction within clades, due to extrinsic or intrinsic factors, play an important role in generating the large scale pattern of life (Eldredge and Gould, 1972; Stanley, 1979, 1990; Eldredge, 1979, 1982, 1989, 1999; Vrba, 1980, 1984, 1996).
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Lieberman, B.S. (2001). Analyzing Speciation Rates in Macroevolutionary Studies. In: Adrain, J.M., Edgecombe, G.D., Lieberman, B.S. (eds) Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form. Topics in Geobiology, vol 19. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0571-6_9
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