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Molecular clockDivergence (linguistics)MacroevolutionBiologyEvolutionary biologyVertebrateLineage (genetic)PaleontologyCenozoicExtinction (optical mineralogy)Sequence (biology)Phylogenetic treeGeneGenetics
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- 1998
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- article
- Volume
- 392
- Issue
- 6679
- Pages
- 917-920
- Citations
- 1938
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Sudhir Kumar,
Simon Hedges
(1998).
A molecular timescale for vertebrate evolution.
Nature
, 392
(6679)
, 917-920.
https://doi.org/10.1038/31927
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- 10.1038/31927