[Taxacom] Hedges /Kumar (eds) The Timetree of Life

[Jason Mate]

John,

criticism is fair game as long as you back it up with facts. If you have read any of the articles (i.e. Hepialids) point at the problems you see. But deriding all books that use or rely on molecular data as propaganda
is just boring. You may have good points but you are just not fleshing them out.

As for the use of fossil evidence, I have yet to come across a case were they use them as maximal age when dating trees. It just makes no sense to state that you have the fossil of the very first 
exemplar of a taxon.

Best

Jason

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