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Science 7 August 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5378, pp. 774 - 775
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5378.774
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MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION MEETING:
New Views of the Origins of Mammals

Dennis Normile

HAYAMA, JAPAN--Paleontologists and molecular biologists take different approaches to questions of evolution and often come to different conclusions. While attending the International Symposium on the Origin of Mammalian Orders here from 21 to 25 July, 50 mammalian researchers from both sides of the fence tried to find common ground on such topics as when modern mammalian orders emerged and differentiated, and a proposed link between whales and ungulates.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Evolutionary and Preservational Constraints on Origins of Biologic Groups: Divergence Times of Eutherian Mammals.
M. Foote, J. P. Hunter, C. M. Janis, and J. J. Sepkoski Jr. (1999)
Science 283, 1310-1314
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