Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record

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Contents


Contributors vii

Introduction: molecular clocks and the fossil record—towards
consilience?
PHILIP C.J.DONOGHUEM.PAUL SMITH

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1 Molecular clocks: whence and whither?
FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ-TRELLESROSA TARRÍOFRANCISCO
J.AYALA

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2 Molecular clocks and a biological trigger for Neoproterozoic
Snowball Earth events and the Cambrian explosion
S.BLAIR HEDGES

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3 Phylogenetic fuses and evolutionary ‘explosions’: conflicting
evidence and critical tests
RICHARD A.FORTEYJENNIFER JACKSONJAN STRUGNELL

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4 The quality of the fossil record
MICHAEL J.BENTON

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5 Ghost ranges
CHRISTOPHER R.C.PAUL

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6 Episodic evolution of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene
in the stem-lineage of Foraminifera
JAN PAWLOWSKICÉDRIC BERNEY

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7 Dating the origin of land plants
CHARLES H.WELLMAN

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8 Angiosperm divergence times: congruence and incongruence
between fossils and sequence divergence estimates
NIKLAS WIKSTRÖMVINCENT SAVOLAINENMARK W.CHASE

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9 The limitations of the fossil record and the dating of the origin of
the Bilateria
GRAHAM E.BUDDSÖREN JENSEN

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10 The origin and early evolution of chordates: molecular clocks and
the fossil record


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