Third International Palaeontological Congress (IPC3)

21. The wood from the trees: phylogenetic approaches to large-scale events in the history of life
Keynote speakers: William Crepet, Andy Purvis
Organisers: Marcello Ruta & Mike Benton

This symposium seeks to provide state-of-the-art information on fundamental episodes in the history of life, using the shape of phylogenetic trees (either already available or newly assembled) as the starting point for macroevolutionary investigation. Themes include: clade origin; evolutionary novelties and their impact on diversification; morphological diversity and taxonomic richness; the quality of the palaeontological record; terrestrialization; fossils and molecular clocks

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