Tests of a sample of 206 cladograms of mammals show that morphological data seem to predict phylogenies that match the known fossil record better than molecular trees. Three metrics that assess the rank order of branching points, the stratigraphic consistency of those nodes, and the ratio of ghost r
Congruence of Morphological and Molecular Phylogenies
โ Scribed by Davide Pisani; Michael J. Benton; Mark Wilkinson
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-5342
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