Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life.

By Michael Benton, P. Donoghue. Molecular biology and evolution, 2006

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Widespread Genomic Signatures of Natural Selection in Hominid Evolution (2009, background): “The old world monkey/great ape divergence time is older than suggested by the fossil record [82], but can potentially be explained by generation times that have increased during hominid evolution or a more recent human/chimpanzee speciation time than was used for calibration.”
As Time Goes by: A Simple Fool's Guide to Molecular Clock Approaches in Invertebrates* (2009, background): “…from the fact that they can provide only minimum age estimates as a fossil is necessarily younger than the phylogenetic event that led to its existence and as there is an inherent problem with missing taxa (Marshall 1990, Cutler 2000, Hedges and Kumar 2004, Benton and Donoghue 2007, Ho 2007).”
A Divergence Dating Analysis of Turtles Using Fossil Calibrations: An Example of Best Practices (2013, background): “This methodological approach is a more accurate reflection of the fossil record, since a fossil can only give a minimum estimate of origination and not a precise time of origin as a point estimate implies (Reisz and Müller, 2004; Benton and Donoghue, 2007).”
Accounting for calibration uncertainty in phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary divergence times. (2009, background): “Furthermore, the fossil record is often too limiting for phylogenetic bracketing to be effective in determining hard maximum constraints (Benton and Donoghue 2007).”
A Methodological Framework for the Reconstruction of Contiguous Regions of Ancestral Genomes and Its Application to Mammalian Genomes (2008, background): “Another type of approach infers ancestral genome segments, called Contiguous Ancestral Regions (CARs), from syntenic features that are conserved in extant species (the terminology is borrowed from [12]).”
A Phylogeny and Timescale for Marsupial Evolution Based on Sequences for Five Nuclear Genes (2008, background): “Maximum constraints on divergence times are more difficult to specify ( Benton and Ayala 2003; Hedges and Kumar 2004; Reisz and Muller 2004; Benton and Donoghue 2007).”
Teleost fish with specific genome duplication as unique models of vertebrate evolution (2010, methodology): “2009) would be more reliable than previous ones because the recent estimations are based on rich information of fossil records (e.g., Benton 1993; Benton and Donoghue 2007), large sequence data sets from whole mitochondrial genomes, and an method which does not depend on the assumption of constant r”
Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations (2011, methodology): “Researchers who use this intuitive approach should provide detailed arguments justifying their decisions so that others can evaluate them and, following the arguments of Benton and Donoghue (2007) and Ho and Phillips (2009), the maximum bounds should be soft and liberal.”
Calibrating molecular estimates of substitution rates and divergence times in birds (2007, background): “This treatment of fossil calibrations is inappropriate because fossils can only provide minimum age estimates for divergence events, as the appearance of a fossil necessarily postdates the origin of the clade of which it is a member (Marshall 1990, Hedges and Kumar 2004, Benton and Donoghue 2007 ).”