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During the last ZO years great progress has been achieved in our
understanding of both earth history and vertebrate evolution. The
result is that climatic/tectonic events in earth history can now be
placed in a more precise and global time frame, that permit their
evaluation as abiotic causal factors which might trigger extinction
and dispersal events in vertebrate history. Great strides have also
been made in genetics and cell biology, providing new insight into
phylogenetic relationships among many vertebrates. These new data,
along with data on chronologie resolution of earth history, provide
tests of previous interpretations regarding ancestral-descendant
relationships based solely on the fossil record. It is fitting and
proper that a volume on European Neogene mammal chronology is
produced at this time, to ensure that new interpretations of
vertebrate evolution and chronology are based on the most accurate
and current data. Vertebrate paleon tologists believe that the
fossil record is the only secure data for measuring the actual
course and tempo of vertebrate evolution. Knowledge of the fossil
record must keep pace with advances in other areas of science so
that inferences on vertebrate evolu tion are accurate and
meaningful."
During the last ZO years great progress has been achieved in our
understanding of both earth history and vertebrate evolution. The
result is that climatic/tectonic events in earth history can now be
placed in a more precise and global time frame, that permit their
evaluation as abiotic causal factors which might trigger extinction
and dispersal events in vertebrate history. Great strides have also
been made in genetics and cell biology, providing new insight into
phylogenetic relationships among many vertebrates. These new data,
along with data on chronologie resolution of earth history, provide
tests of previous interpretations regarding ancestral-descendant
relationships based solely on the fossil record. It is fitting and
proper that a volume on European Neogene mammal chronology is
produced at this time, to ensure that new interpretations of
vertebrate evolution and chronology are based on the most accurate
and current data. Vertebrate paleon tologists believe that the
fossil record is the only secure data for measuring the actual
course and tempo of vertebrate evolution. Knowledge of the fossil
record must keep pace with advances in other areas of science so
that inferences on vertebrate evolu tion are accurate and
meaningful."
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