Eble, Gunther J. - Santa Fe Institute - 1999
The dynamics of origination in the fossil record of three marine groups (molluscs, echinoderms and fishes) and three … lineage origination; (2) secular decline in evolutionary innovation; (3) diversity dependence of lineage origination; (4) self …-organized criticality of lineage origination. A decline in lineage origination and in the production of major innovations is present in all …