Palaeontology: Decay distorts ancestry

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7282, 2010, Pages 741-743

  Briggs, Derek E G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRITE;

CAMBRIAN; DECOMPOSITION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FOSSILIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETON; VERTEBRATE;

CAMBRIAN; CHINA; CHORDATA; FOSSIL ANIMAL; LAMPREY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHORDATA; FOSSILS; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 76749172217     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/463741a     Document Type: Short Survey

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