Abstract
Bininda-Emonds and Purvis reanalyzed our mammalian phylogenetic supermatrix and claim that our results are not significantly different from their delayed-rise hypothesis. We show that our divergence times are ~11 million years later for placental inter- and intraordinal divergences - consistent with a post - Cretaceous-Paleogene (KPg) radiation of most modern mammalian orders - and find no support for the early Eocene delayed-rise hypothesis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 34b |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 336 |
| Issue number | 6090 |
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| State | Published - 6 Jul 2012 |