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==Difference from macroevolution== [[Macroevolution]] is guided by sorting of interspecific variation ("species selection"<ref name=":0" />), as opposed to sorting of intraspecific variation in microevolution.<ref name=":1" /> Species selection may occur as (a) effect-macroevolution, where organism-level traits (aggregate traits) affect speciation and extinction rates, and (b) strict-sense species selection, where species-level traits (e.g. geographical range) affect speciation and extinction rates.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jablonski|first=David|date=December 2008|title=Species Selection: Theory and Data|journal=Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics|language=en|volume=39|issue=1|pages=501β524|doi=10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173510|issn=1543-592X}}</ref> Macroevolution does not produce evolutionary novelties, but it determines their proliferation within the clades in which they evolved, and it adds species-level traits as non-organismic factors of sorting to this process.<ref name=":1" />
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