Robust time estimation reconciles views of the antiquity of placental mammals.

Robust time estimation reconciles views of the antiquity of placental mammals.

BACKGROUND:Molecular studies have reported divergence times of modern placental orders long before the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and far older than paleontological data. However, this discrepancy may not be real, but rather appear because of the violation of implicit assumptions in the estimation...

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Main Authors: Yasuhiro Kitazoe, Hirohisa Kishino, Peter J Waddell, Noriaki Nakajima, Takahisa Okabayashi, Teruaki Watabe, Yoshiyasu Okuhara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000384

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