The Future of Systematics: Tree Thinking without the Tree.
Phylogenetic trees are meant to represent the genealogical history of life and apparently derive their justification from the existence of the tree of life and the fact that evolutionary processes are treelike. However, there are a number of problems for these assumptions. Here it is argued that onc...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 624 - 637 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2012
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