\. Read some papers (find them using any of several literature-search engines that your instructor can suggest) that make different estimates of the timing of either the origin of bilaterian animal phyla or the orders of mammals. How different are the estimates based on molecular clock evidence versus paleontological evidence? What might account for these differences, and how might they be resolved?

\. Read some papers (find them using any of several literature-search engines that your instructor can suggest) that make different estimates of the timing of either the origin of bilaterian animal phyla or the orders of mammals. How different are the estimates based on molecular clock evidence versus paleontological evidence? What might account for these differences, and how might they be resolved?

Biology (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg

Publisher:Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg

Chapter18: Introduction To Darwinian Evolution

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 16TYU: INTERPRET DATA Which of the primates in Figure 18-18 is the most distantly related to humans?...

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