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background extinction: a standalone construct

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Paleontology

ordinary extinction between mass extinctions, whose selectivity differs from that of mass extinction episodes.

In paleontology, background extinction refers to ordinary extinction between mass extinctions, whose selectivity differs from that of mass extinction episodes. This meaning comes from Jablonski (1986) in Science.[1]

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References

Jablonski, D. (1986). Background and Mass Extinctions: The Alternation of Macroevolutionary Regimes. Science, 231(4734), 129-133. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.231.4734.129

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