Noise leads to the perceived increase in evolutionary rates over short time scales

• Brian C. O’Meara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bomeara@utk.edu (BCO); jmbeauli@uark.edu (JMB)

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0337-5997

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• Jeremy M. Beaulieu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bomeara@utk.edu (BCO); jmbeauli@uark.edu (JMB)

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas; Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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