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Origin of the Eumetazoa: testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against the Proterozoic fossil record.
Paper summary
Compares molecular-clock predictions of early animal divergence with fossil and ecological evidence. It argues that major changes in organization should produce ecosystem effects that can help test timing hypotheses.
Relevance to the project
Illustrates using independent environmental consequences to assess a proposed organizational transition. Could inform tests of higher-level simulated entities.
Clock calibration and fossil preservation limit historical precision.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc1172262
- Archived version
- Publisher/repository PDF linked by Europe PMC; see source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc1172262/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.