Evolving Perceptions on the Antiquity of the Modern Avian Tree

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 306-324

  Brown, Joseph W ^a   Tuinen, M Van ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of modern bird (Neornithes) origin and radiation debated for over a century; Antiquity of the modern avian tree and evolving perceptions; Comparison of known fossil extinct birds (Archaeopteryx, Ichthyornis, Hesperornis) to extant birds an ancient origin of modern birds; Exegesis of literature on fossil and molecular divergence time estimates culminating in the (unfortunately) so called "rocks vs. clocks"; Limitations of current molecular phylogenetic dating techniques; Modeling "relaxed" clocks rigorous approach to dating nonclock like molecular genetic sequence data, explicitly model rating heterogeneity itself; Molecular information, constrained explicitly in a probabilistic framework by both fossil record, discrepancy between molecular and fossil chronograms; Molecular substitution models molecular evolution, modeled as a continuous time Markovian substitution process; One lineage of modern volant birds and Archaeopteryx sharing a common scaled lizard like ancestor with pterosaurs; Two paradigm shifts in 1960s, advancing understanding of avian evolutionary history cladistic reinterpretation of fossils and the "rock clock" debate

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EID: 84873980394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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