Decay distorts ancestry

Derek E. G. Briggs
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Derek E. G. Briggs: and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. derek.briggs@yale.edu

Nature, 2010, vol. 463, issue 7282, 741-742

Abstract: Experiments with simple chordate animals show how decay may make the resulting fossils seem less evolved. The consequence is to distort evidence of the evolution of the earliest vertebrates and their precursors.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/463741a

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