Why could we infer a physical time scale (e.g. a billion year) from a phylogenetic analysis?
I have been wondering this question for a while:
Why could we infer a physical time scale (e.g. billion years) from a phylogenetic analysis?
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What is the basis that we correlate the sequence similarity of two sequences with the time of evolution?
or
How do we deduce the physical time scale from a phylogenetic tree?
Any idea?
Thank you very much!
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Genetic distance and known or expected mutation rates, I guess.
To get time (in years), remember, in addition to mutation rate, we also have the fossil record.
Read into the concept of "molecular clock".
Also as far as I know it has to do with fossils. And I thought the timeline is partly estimated by the depth of the fossils or the amount of earth or rock layers or something (like counting the rings of a tree). This is what I vaguely remember if you want to know for sure look up a real source =)
Yep! And the strata (rock layers) themselves can be dated by radioactive age dating (isotope half life decay).
Yes, these are called "calibration fossils".