Early metazoan life: Divergence, environment and ecology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1684, 2015, Pages

  Erwin, Douglas H ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenian; Ediacaran; Innovation; Metazoa; Molecular clock; Redox

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; EDIACARAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC STRUCTURE; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; METAZOA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84946762431     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0036     Document Type: Review

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