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Elisabeth Vrba

American paleontologist

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born: 1942
died: 2025
age at death: 82
known for: paleontologist, zoologist, university teacher

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who elisabeth vrba is

Elisabeth S. Vrba was an American paleontologist at Yale University who developed the turnover-pulse hypothesis which suggests that major changes to the climate or ecosystem often result in a period of rapid extinction and high turnover of new species across multiple different lineages. Together with Stephen J. Gould, they developed the term exaptation to describe a trait that performs a function but originally evolved for a completely different purpose.

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