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17573149

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
A great tradition in macroevolution and systematics has been the ritual squabbling between palaeontologists and molecular biologists. But, because both sides were talking past each other, they could never agree. Practitioners in both fields should play to their strengths and work together: palaeontologists can provide minimum constraints on branching points in the Tree of Life with considerable precision, and estimate the extent of unrecorded prehistory. Molecular tree analysts have remarkable modelling tools in their armoury to convert multiple minimum age constraints into meaningful dated trees. As we discuss here, work should now focus on establishing reasonable, dated trees that satisfy rigorous assessment of the available fossils and careful consideration of molecular tree methods: rocks and clocks together are an unbeatable combination. Reliably dated trees provide, for the first time, the opportunity to explore wider questions in macroevolution.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0169-5347
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
424-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-5-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK. phil.donoghue@bristol.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review