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Dating placentalia: Morphological clocks fail to close the molecular fossil gap

Dating the origin of Placentalia has been a contentious issue for biologists and paleontologists. Although it is likely that crown‐group placentals originated in the Late Cretaceous, nearly all molecular clock estimates point to a deeper Cretaceous origin. An approach with the potential to reconcile...

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Autores principales: Puttick, Mark N., Thomas, Gavin H., Benton, Michael J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5071738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26990798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12907