• DOI:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00052.x
Corpus ID: 55247554

Dating nodes on molecular phylogenies: a critique of molecular biogeography

@article{Heads2005DatingNO,
  title={Dating nodes on molecular phylogenies: a critique of molecular biogeography},
  author={M. Heads},
  journal={Cladistics},
  year={2005},
  volume={21}
}

• M. Heads
• Published 2005
• Biology
• Cladistics

Taxa have been dated using three methods: equating their age with the age of the oldest known fossil, with the age of strata the taxa are endemic to, and with the age of paleogeographic events. All three methods have been adopted as methods of dating nodes in molecular phylogenies. The first method has been the most popular, but both this and the second method involve serious difficulties. Studies often, correctly, introduce oldest known fossils as providing minimum ages for divergences… Expand

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