paleonet Fossils/molecular data: Seeking Thread

[TomDeVrie@xxxxxxx]

I'm teaching a high school elective that compares the paleo record of whale 
evolution with that yielded by mtDNA sequences.  Students study modern whale 
bones, examine an Oligocene mysticete in a nearby museum, use online and 
literature sources for paleo data, and isolate mtDNA (chicken proxies for the 
techniques), run PCR reactions, manually sequence mtDNA fragments, and use 
Genbank sequences for aligning and building trees.

I'd be grateful if someone could email the full thread (to date) of this 
discussion on paleo and molecular data (to me, not the listserve).  Even if 
the discussion is occasionally overheated, it will illustrate to students the 
tension that arises from using different data sets to resolve a single 
problem.

Tom DeVries