A new look at evolutionary rates in deep time: uniting palaeontology and high-precision geochronology

GSA Today

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1-2

  Bowring, Samuel A ^a   Erwin, Douglas H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHANEROZOIC;

EID: 0032432127     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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