Paul M. Smith (ed.)

Telling the Evolutionary Time

Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record
Herausgeber: Donoghue, Philip C J; Smith, M Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents a discussion between molecular biologists and paleontologists, in which they investigate the significance of competing sources of data, explain the nature of molecular clocks and the fossil record, and attempt to develop compromise models that incorporate conflicting opinions. These are presented as a series of case studies dealing with many of the most important groups of complex organisms. Research scientists and advanced undergraduates across the field of evolutionary biology will find Telling Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and Fossil Record a stimulating volume, bringing new insight and perspective to a thorny debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 265mm x 181mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780415275248
• ISBN-10: 0415275245
• Artikelnr.: 22596879

Autorenporträt

Philip C. J. Donoghue, M. Paul Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Molecular Clocks: Whence and Whither. Molecular Clocks and a Biological
Trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth Events and the Cambrian
Explosion. Phylogenetic Fuses and Evolutionary 'Explosions': Conflicting
Evidence and Critical Tests. The Quality of the Fossil Record. Ghost
Ranges. Episodic Evolution of Nuclear Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene in
the Stem-lineage of Foraminifera. Dating the Origin of Land Plants.
Angiosperm Divergence Times: Congruence and Incongruence Between Fossils
and Sequence Divergence Estimates. The Limitations of the Fossil Record and
the Dating of the Origin of the Bilateria. The Origin and Early Evolution
of Chordates: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record. Bones, Molecules and
Crown-tetrapod Origins. The Fossil record and Molecular Clocks: Basal
Radiations within the Neornithes.