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Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

Fossils are vital for calibrating rates of molecular and morphological change through geological time, and are the only direct source of data documenting macroevolutionary transitions. Many evolutionary studies therefore require the robust phylogenetic placement of extinct organisms. Here, we demons...

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Autores principales: Sansom, Robert S., Wills, Matthew A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23985991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02545