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Molecular evolution from the fossil record—a dream or a reality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Stephen Weiner
Stephen Weiner*
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Isotope Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
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Paleobiology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Winter 1980 , pp. 4 - 5
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