Book ID: 84678
Donoghue, Philip and Pail Smith
Telling the Evolutionary Time. Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record. 2003. (Systematics Ass. Spec. Vol.66) 80 figs. 10 tabs. VIII, 288 p. gr8vp. Hardcover.
Discussion between molecular biologists and palaeontologists,in which they investigate the significance of competing sources of data, explain the nature of molecular clocks and the fossil record,and attempt to develop compromise models that incorporate conflictingopinions. These are presented as a series of case studies dealing withmany of the most important groups of complex organisms.