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A history of give and take

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Fossils of microorganisms from deep-sea sediment cores show that environmental change correlates closely with extinction but not with speciation, producing a nuanced view of the drivers of evolution. See Letter p.398

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Figure 1: Layers of life.

DENNIS KUNKEL MICROSCOPY/PHOTOTAKE

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 9 January 2013.

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  1. Steven M. Holland is in the Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2501, USA.,

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