Tempo and mode of early animal evolution: inferences from rocks, Hox, and molecular clocks

One of the enduring puzzles to Stephen Jay Gould about life on Earth was the cause or causes of the fantastic diversity of animals that exploded in the fossil record starting around 530 Ma-the Cambrian explosion. In this contribution, we first review recent phylogenetic and molecular clock studies t...

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Authors: Peterson, Kevin J. (Author) ; Evans, David A. D. (Author) ; McPeek, Mark A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
In: Paleobiology
Year: 2005, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 36-55
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