title: A palaeontological perspective.
abstract: Palaeontology and molecular biology researchers need to develop a better dialogue. The recovery of biological information from Precambrian ecosystems that are thousands of millions of years old, the search for radical genomic reorganizations that might explain the irruption of groups with novel body plans, and the recovery of diagnostic molecules from fossils are all areas of active research, but communication between disciplines does not always occur.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D010163:Paleontology