Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20150312063720/@comment-3213993-20150317033451

BastionMonk wrote: So, archosaurs have a very slow DNA evolution rate. For both single nucleotide mutations and gene order. That is good news. It means that the last croc-bird ancestor and last common bird ancestor give a good idea of what the dino genome looked like. Even when the dino's diverted long ago from the line that led to birds. This makes deducing the genes of ancestral dinosaurs and theropods, as you said in this thread, much easier. I also found a paper about estimating the age of a mutation.