TY - JOUR
AU1 - Novacek, Michael J.
AU2 - Norell, Mark A.
AB - AbstractNovacek, M. J., and M. A. Norell (Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York 10024; Department of Zoology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182) 1982. Fossils, phylogeny, and taxonomic rates of evolution. Syst. Zool., 31:366–375.—Studies of taxonomic rates of evolution depend largely on a literal reading of the fossil record for extinction and origination events. This approach can yield estimates that grossly misrepresent phylogenetic patterns derived independently from character analysis. Such distortion can arise even in cases (e.g., Primates) where the fossil record is thought to be comparatively well-documented. Results of studies of rates at broader taxonomic levels (e.g., mammals versus bivalves) vary markedly according to, often unwarranted, assumptions regarding origination times. The significance of much of the published study on taxonomic rates is moot until fossil data for these rates are broadly compared with cladistic hypotheses. [Fossils; phylogeny; rates of evolution.]
TI - Fossils, Phylogeny, and Taxonomic Rates of Evolution
JF - Systematic Biology
DO - 10.1093/sysbio/31.4.366
DA - 1982-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/fossils-phylogeny-and-taxonomic-rates-of-evolution-ACoHmooIc5
SP - 366
EP - 375
VL - 31
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -