Some of the branches reached all the way up through time to today, while others had been clipped by extinction.Darwin’s theory was powerful because it lacked the magic tricks of the old Lamarckians — the inner striving, the passing on of characteristics acquired in life — and because he...
Both variables were significant (p < 0.001) and had a negative relation to a colony’s probability of extinction. Nevertheless, there was significant unexplained variance (χ2 = 13.621, df = 8, p = 0.09), which suggests that we were unable to effectively explain the drivers of local ...