Telling the evolutionary time : molecular clocks and the fossil record / edited by Philip C.J. Donoghue and M. Paul Smith.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Palaeontological Association
Other Authors:	Donoghue, Philip C. J., 1971-, Smith, M. Paul, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York, NY : [Boca Raton, Fla.] : Taylor & Francis ; CRC Press, 2003.
Series:	Systematics Association special volume ; no. 66.
Subjects:	Evolutionary paleobiology. Paleontology. Biological rhythms. Evolution (Biology)

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Molecular clocks and the fossil record - towards consilience? / Philip J.C. Donoghue and M. Paul Smith
Molecular clocks : whence and whither? / Francisco Rod̕rguez-Trelles, Rosa Tar̕ro and Francisco J. Ayala
Molecular clocks and a biological trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events and the Cambrian explosion / S. Blair Hedges
Phylogenetic fuses and evolutionary 'explosions' : conflicting evidence and critical tests / Richard J. Fortey, Jennifer Jackson and Jan Strugnell
The quality of the fossil record / Michael J. Benton
Ghost ranges / Christopher R.C. Paul
Episodic evolution of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene in the stem-lineage of Foraminifera / Jan Pawlowski and Čdric Berney
Dating the origin of land plants / Charles H. Wellman
Angiosperm divergence times : congruence and incongruence between fossils and sequence divergence estimates / Niklas Wikstṟm, Vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase
The limitations of the fossil record and the dating of the origin of the Bilateria / Graham E. Budd and S̲ren Jensen
The origin and early evolution of chordates : molecular clocks and the fossil record / Philip C.J. Donoghue, M. Paul Smith and Ivan J. Sansom
Bones, molecules, and crown-tetrapod origins / Marcello Ruta and Michael I. Coates
The fossil record and molecular clocks : basal radiations within the Neornithes / Gareth J. Dyke.

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