About the Authors

Bianka Kovács

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary, Center for Conceptual Foundations of Science, Parmenides Foundation, Pöcking, Germany

György Barabás

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary, Division of Biology, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Géza Meszéna

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Eörs Szathmáry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

szathmary.eors@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary, Center for Conceptual Foundations of Science, Parmenides Foundation, Pöcking, Germany, Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

András Szilágyi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary, Center for Conceptual Foundations of Science, Parmenides Foundation, Pöcking, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.