In 1982 they recognized that the typical approach for defining the last occurrence of a given species did not take into account the incompleteness of the fossil record or the biases introduced in the way the fossils were collected.
In 1982 they recognized that the typical approach for defining the last occurrence of a given species did not take into account the incompleteness of the fossil record or the biases introduced in the way the fossils were collected.
他们在1982年指出，过去用来定义某个物种「在生命史上最后一次出现」的方法，没有考虑到「化石记录不完整」，或者「化石收集不是个随机过程」等事实。