Response to Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds” | Zendy

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Response to Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds”

Author(s) -

Joël Cracraft,

Peter Houde,

Simon Y. W. Ho,

David P. Mindell,

Jon Fjeldså,

Bent Erik Kramer Lindow,

Scott V. Edwards,

Carsten Rahbek,

Siavash Mirarab,

Tandy Warnow,

M. Thomas P. Gilbert,

Guojie Zhang,

Edward L. Braun,

Erich D. Jarvis

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.aab1578

Subject(s) - extinction event , tree of life (biology) , fossil record , ancestor , divergence (linguistics) , most recent common ancestor , evolutionary biology , phylogenetic tree , extinction (optical mineralogy) , biology , phylogenetics , paleogene , cretaceous , paleontology , zoology , geography , demography , biological dispersal , philosophy , gene , archaeology , genetics , population , linguistics , sociology

Mitchell et al. argue that divergence-time estimates for our avian phylogeny were too young because of an "inappropriate" maximum age constraint for the most recent common ancestor of modern birds and that, as a result, most modern bird orders diverged before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago instead of after. However, their interpretations of the fossil record and timetrees are incorrect

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