The Importance of Fossils in Phylogeny Reconstruction

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  • Michael J. Donoghue
  • James A. Doyle
  • Jacques Gauthier
  • Arnold G. Kluge
  • Timothy Rowe
چکیده

It is widely believed that fossils are of fundamental importance in reconstructing phylogeny (e.g. 24, 28). Simpson (52, p. 83), for example, argued "fossils provide tl?,e soundest basis for evolutionary classification." Although phylogenies of many groups have been reconstructed using morphological or chemical characters of extant organisms alone, it is often noted that fossils would have been of great use in clarifying relationships and that conclusions are necessarily tenuous in their absence. Thus, Thorne (58, p. 85) commented 431 0066-4170/90/0101/0431 $02.00 Annual Reviews www.annualreviews.org/aronline

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تاریخ انتشار 2005