Turn back the molecular clock, say Argentina’s plant fossils

2 diciembre 2014

Molecular clocks — based on changes in genetic material — indicate much younger ages for a wide variety of plants found as fossils in southern Argentina than do the solid, geologic dates of those fossils, according to geoscientists who surveyed recent paleobotanical discoveries in Patagonia.
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