Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: molecular clocks and the fossil record - towards consilience? / Philip C. J. Donoghue and M. Paul Smith
  • 1. Molecular clocks: whence and whither? / Francisco Rodriguez - Trellez ; Rosa Tarrío and Francisco J. Ayala
  • 2. Molecular clocks and biological trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events and the Cambrian explosion / S. Blair Hedges
  • 3. Phylogenetic fuses and evolutionary 'explosons: conflicting evidence and critical tests / Richard A Fortey, Jennifer Jackson and Jan Strugnell
  • 4. The quality of the fossil record / Michael J. Benton
  • 5. Ghost ranges / Christopher R. C. Paul
  • 6. Episodic evolution of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene in the stem-lineage of Foraminifera / Jan Pawlowski and Cédric Berney
  • 7. Dating the origin of land plants / Charles H. Wellman
  • 8. Angiosperm divergence times: congruence eand incongruence between fossils and sequence divergence estimates / Niklas Wikström, vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase
  • 9. The limitations of the fossil record and the dating of the origin of the Bilateria / Graham E. Budd and Soren Jensen
  • 10. The origin and early evolution of chordates: molecular clocks and the fossil record / Philip C.J. Donoghue, M. Paul Smith and Ivan J. Sansom
  • 11. Bones, molecules, and crown-tetrapod origins / Marcello Ruta and Michael I. Coates
  • 12. The fossil record and molecular clocks: basal radiations within the Neornithes / Gareth J. Dyke