AW: molecular clock hypothesis sans verboten material...

[evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>]

> > Even the
> > ornithologists now 
> > understand 
> 
> Heh.

I would very much hope so, but there are still quite a few of us who have not 
yet heard the shot that ended the life of Pauling's other great error... Still, 
most apply mol-clocks rather loosely these days, though I'd like to see more 
follow the approach that researchers like Sergio Pereira use to good effort - 
get basic constraints from a rough mol-clock, and smother them with 
paleogeographical data til it's narrowed down (they'd probably use 
paleontological data as well, but the fossil record of Amazonian cracids is 
zero IIRC).

Eike


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