タキシカル古生物学の経験的評価

J M Adrain1, S R Westrop

  • 1Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 7, 2000
PubMed
まとめ

考古学者は,化石データベースのデータの正確性を評価した. 主要なグローバルデータベースのエントリの70%以上が不正確であるにもかかわらず,ランダムなエラー分布は,動物多様性の分析にバイアスしないことを意味します.

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