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Molecular clock tied to fossil record

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Evolutionary trees may finally provide answers everyone can agree on.

A way to date prehistoric events using molecules from living creatures is finally becoming precise enough to be useful. A team of scientists has improved on a 'molecular clock' system that can fix a rough date for the last common ancestor of two separate species.

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  1. DouzeryE. J. P., et al. PNAS, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0403984101 (2004).

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Marris, E. Molecular clock tied to fossil record. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news041011-2

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