Dating the time of origin of major clades: Molecular clocks and the fossil record

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue , 2002, Pages 65-88

  Smith, Andrew B ^a   Peterson, Kevin J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adequacy of the fossil record; Birds; Mammals; Metazoan phylogeny; Rates of evolution

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

MOLECULAR CLOCKS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CLADISTICS; DATING METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; TAXONOMY;

BIOGENESIS; CRETACEOUS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TERTIARY;

EID: 0036433299     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.30.091201.140057     Document Type: Article

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