对纳税古生物学进行实证评估

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
概括

古生物学家评估了化石数据库中的数据准确性. 尽管主要的全球数据库中超过70%的条目是不准确的,但随机错误分布意味着它不会对动物多样性的分析产生偏见.

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