Using the fossil record to estimate the age of the last common ancestor of extant primates

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6882, 2002, Pages 726-729

  Tavaré, Simon ^a   Marshall, Charies R ^b   Will, Oliver ^c   Soligo, Christophe ^d,e   Martin, Robert D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOSSILS; PALAEONTOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRIMATE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EOCENE; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037129204     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416726a     Document Type: Article

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