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Meaning of Signor-Lipps effect | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Signora Signoras signore Signorelli Signoret signoria

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