Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

Parham, James F.; Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Bell, Christopher J.; Calway, Tyler; Head, Jason J.; Holroyd, Patricia A.; Inoue, Jun; Irmis, Randall B.; Joyce, Walter G.; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Patané, José Salvatore Leister; Smith, Nathan D.; Tarver, James E.; Tuinen, Marcel van; Yang, Ziheng; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Greenwood, Jenny M.; Hipsley, Christy A.; Jacobs, Louis L.; Makovicky, Peter J.; Müller, Johannes; Smith, Krister T.; Theodor, Jessica M.; Warnock, Rachel C. M.; Benton, Michael J.

doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr107

articleSystematic BiologySep 21, 2011BRONZE OA

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

JFJames F. Parham PCPhilip C. J. Donoghue CJChristopher J. Bell TCTyler Calway JJJason J. Head

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Our ability to correlate biological evolution with climate change, geological evolution, and other historical patterns is essential to understanding the processes that shape biodiversity. Combining data from the fossil record with molecular phylogenetics represents an exciting synthetic approach to this challenge. The first molecular divergence dating analysis (Zuckerkandl and Pauling 1962) was based on a measure of the amino acid differences in the hemoglobin molecule, with replacement rates established (calibrated) using paleontological age estimates from textbooks (e.g., Dodson 1960). Since that time, the amount of molecular sequence data has increased dramatically, affording ever-greater opportunities to…

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