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Oct 27, 2021 · The most prominent animal phylum missing from the Cambrian record until now has been the Bryozoa, a group of aquatic animals that exist as individual organisms connected by tissue to form...
- Andrej Ernst, Mark A. Wilson
- 2021
- Abstract
- Evolution of Animal Body Plans
- Molecular Clocks
- Molecular Dates and Explosive Radiations
- Explosive Radiations and The Molecular Clock
- Molecular Dating with Variable Rates
- Metazoan Molecular Dates: Where to Next?
The questions asked by George Gaylord Simpson in his 1944, “The Tempo and Mode of Evolution,” concerning the size of mutations, the pace of morphological change and the apparent discontinuous origins of taxa in the fossil record, are far from resolved. Indeed, they are being debated more strongly than ever, because of the growing conviction amongst...
The hypothesis that body plans were formed in the Cambrian Explosion then canalized predicts that there are critical characters that not only define phyla, but were instrumental in their formation (e.g.,Carroll, 1995; Erwin, 1993; Valentine et al., 1999). This contrasts to the Neodarwinian perspective that the apparent origin of phyla in the Cambri...
The stochastic nature of DNA sequence evolution leads to the prediction that substitutions should increase as a function of time. This prediction is broadly borne out: in general, the more distantly related two species are, the more sites in a DNA or protein sequence differ between them. In many cases, if genetic distance is plotted against time, a...
One problem with molecular clocks that is more difficult to address is the potential for concerted changes in rate of molecular evolution over time. If lineages can have consistently different average substitution rates, this implies that rates evolve along phylogenies. This could create temporal patterns of substitution rates that would be difficu...
Are there other determinants of rate of molecular evolution that could cause systematic errors in the molecular dates for the metazoan radiation? Adaptive radiations are characterized by several evolutionary processes that might influence rates of molecular evolution: increased speciation rate, rapid morphological change, and directional change in ...
So there is currently no empirical evidence to suggest that rates of molecular evolution would have been faster in the early evolution of the metazoan kingdom. However, it is possible that some unknown effect sped the molecular clock during the Cambrian explosion—could such unknown rate variation be allowed for in molecular clock analyses? One appr...
The discrepancy between molecular and palaeontological dates for the origin of animal phyla remains unresolved. The accuracy and precision of molecular dates should be subject to scrutiny, as there are many aspects of molecular studies that could lead to error in molecular date estimates. The wide variation between estimates shows that the precisio...
- Lindell Bromham
- 2003
Appealing to traditional neo-Darwinian mechanisms of mutation requires too much change in too little time. And in the end, fossils documenting this gradual change are generally conspicuously absent.
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Jul 31, 2022 · The current understanding of evolutionary relationships between animal, or Metazoa, phyla begins with the distinction between “true” animals with true differentiated tissues, called Eumetazoa, and animal phyla that do not have true differentiated tissues (such as the sponges), called Parazoa.
Feb 1, 2003 · Phyla do not appear in a sudden jumble, implying an appearance in the fossil record induced by some external influence (e.g., a rise in atmospheric oxygen levels) that allowed a standing diversity already present to be manifested in the record.
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They feed by filtering particles from water and a radula is absent. They exchange gases using a pair of ctenidia, and excretion and osmoregulation are carried out by a pair of nephridia. In some species, the posterior edges of the mantle may fuse to form two siphons that inhale and exhale water.
