Tempo and mode of early animal evolution: Inferences from rocks, Hox, and molecular clocks

Paleobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2005, Pages 36-55

  Peterson, Kevin J ^a   McPeek, Mark A ^a   Evans, David A D ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PREDATION; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; METAZOA;

EID: 21344445693     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0036:TAMOEA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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