Ancestor of Humans Lived With Dinosaurs
| An artist’s rendering shows the first placental mammal |
An ancestor of humans — albeit one that is at the root of our family tree — shared the planet with dinosaurs, a new study concludes.
This ancestor, the first placental mammal, lived between 88.3 to 91.6 million years ago, according to the study, published in the latest issue of Biology Letters. Placental mammals today include humans and all other mammals except those that lay eggs or have pouches (marsupials).
The study counters prior research, based solely on fossil evidence, which theorized this “mother of all placental mammals” arose after the dinosaurs died out. The researchers instead believe that it preceded the non-avian dino die off and that we wouldn’t even be here if the dinosaurs were still around.
“When dinosaurs died out, many ecological niches became vacant, and placental mammals took over,” lead author Mario dos Reis told Discovery News. “The placental ancestor diversified and evolved into the modern mammals we see today, such as rodents, deer, whales, horses, bats, carnivores, monkeys and ultimately humans.”
“If dinosaurs had not died out, then placental mammals may not have had the opportunity to diversify the way they did, and our own species would not have evolved!” added dos Reis, a research associate in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.
He and colleagues Philip Donoghue and Ziheng Yang analyzed 36 complete mammal genomes together with information from the mammal fossil record. The results determined placental mammals originated in the Cretaceous.
Dos Reis explained that the DNA of organisms accumulates changes, called mutations, at a constant rate in time. This is referred to as the “molecular clock.” For example, certain DNA in humans and other apes mutates at a pace of about 1 percent every 10 million years.
The molecular clock is not perfect, however, and it runs a bit fast in some species and a little slow in others.
Source: http://www.ascensionearth2012.org/2014/08/ancestor-of-humans-lived-with-dinosaurs.html
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