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Contributors | p. vii |
Introduction: molecular clocks and the fossil record - towards consilience? | p. 1 |
Molecular clocks: whence and whither? | p. 5 |
Molecular clocks and a biological trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events and the Cambrian explosion | p. 27 |
Phylogenetic fuses and evolutionary 'explosions': conflicting evidence and critical tests | p. 41 |
The quality of the fossil record | p. 66 |
Ghost ranges | p. 91 |
Episodic evolution of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene in the stem-lineage of Foraminifera | p. 107 |
Dating the origin of land plants | p. 119 |
Angiosperm divergence times: congruence and incongruence between fossils and sequence divergence estimates | p. 142 |
The limitations of the fossil record and the dating of the origin of the Bilateria | p. 166 |
The origin and early evolution of chordates: molecular clocks and the fossil record | p. 190 |
Bones, molecules, and crown-tetrapod origins | p. 224 |
The fossil record and molecular clocks: basal radiations within the Neornithes | p. 263 |
Systematics Association Publications | p. 279 |
Index | p. 283 |
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