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ArticlePaleobiology2022

Ediacara growing pains: Modular addition and development in

Scott D Evans, James G Gehling, Douglas H Erwin, Mary L Droser

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Article in Paleobiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran-Cambrian metazoans.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Scott D EvansDepartment of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA.
James G GehlingSouth Australia Museum, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia.
Douglas H ErwinDepartment of Paleobiology MRC-121, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA.
Mary L DroserDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
National Museum of Natural History · USSouth Australian Museum · AUUniversity of California, Riverside · USVirginia Tech · US

Funding

Intramural NASA 18-EXO18-0096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Constraining patterns of growth using directly observable and quantifiable characteristics can reveal a wealth of information regarding the biology of the Ediacara Biota - the oldest macroscopic, complex community forming organisms in the fossil record. However, these rely on individuals captured at an instant in time at various growth stages, and so different interpretations can be derived from the same material. Here we leverage newly discovered and well-preserved

Identifiers

PMID35001986
PMCPMC8740542
OpenAlexW3200202112

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Registered trials

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