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South America has been an island continent through much of the Tertiary, and the fossil record of many of its surviving mammalian lineages is poor. This state of affairs has made it difficult to develop a coherent picture of the origin, evolution, and systematics of the South American mammalian fauna. In such situations, comparative protein and nucleic studies are of particular utility. The available macromolecular data, though still rather meager, can tell us a great deal about the evolutionary origin and relationships of much of that fauna, and thus yield valuable insights into paleobiogeographical problems, along with testing existing hypotheses derived from paleontological and neontological studies.
This research was supported in part by a grant to V.S. from the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 20850).
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Sarich, V.M., Cronin, J.E. (1980). South American Mammal Molecular Systematics, Evolutionary Clocks, and Continental Drift. In: Ciochon, R.L., Chiarelli, A.B. (eds) Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3764-5_20
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