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Predation has been hypothesized as one of the most important

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Predation has been hypothesized as one of the most important

Predation has been hypothesized as one of the most important driving forces for increasing biodiversity of animals on earth due to escalating arms and race interactic between predators and prey Huntley and Kowalewski 2007 compiled a species lew database of predation intensity as measured by the frequency of common predation traces drillings and repair scars ranging in age from Ediacaran to Holocene Based the graph would you conclude that there is a correlation between biodiversity num of genera and predation frequency Number of Marine Animal Genera 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 Mean Standing Diversity 6000 600 4000 2000 O 0 600 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 0 2 0 16 0 12 0 08 0 04 0 0 Ediac C OS D MP Pm R J 300 Age Ma Median Predation Trace Frequency Drillhole A Repair Scar 200 coccer Y K 100 poco co GOOOX DC LOCO 004400 RETRA og 0 8 Pg Ng 0 6 0 4 0 0 2 0 Frequency of Specimens with Predation Traces