Signor-Lipps effect (English, noun)
expansion: Signor-Lipps effect
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topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The principle that due to the incompleteness of the fossil record, the earliest and latest known occurrences of a taxon will almost never represent the ages of the actual earliest and latest organisms belonging to it.
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