Open AccessThe rise of predators
Author(s) -
Susannah M. Porter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus062011.1
Subject(s) - abundance (ecology) , predation , diversity (politics) , geology , ecology , paleontology , geography , biology , sociology , anthropology
Despite their abundance, diversity, and importance today, organisms with mineralized skeletons are a relatively recent introduction. For the first three billion years of its history, life was soft-bodied, inducing mineralized structures passively, if at all. Beginning ca. 550 Ma, however, more than
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