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signor-lipps effect

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables
sig-nor-lipp-s -ef-fect
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The principle that due to the incompleteness of the fossil record, the earliest and latest known occurrences of a taxon will almost never represent the ages of the actual earliest and latest organisms belonging to it.

Etymology

Named after American paleontologists Philip Signor and Jere Lipps, who formally proposed it in 1982.

Questions

What does signor-lipps effect mean?
The principle that due to the incompleteness of the fossil record, the earliest and latest known occurrences of a taxon will almost never represent the ages of the actual earliest and latest organisms belonging to it.
Where does signor-lipps effect come from?
Named after American paleontologists Philip Signor and Jere Lipps, who formally proposed it in 1982.

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