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How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?

Biology Direct
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-32
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We examine the Tree of Life (TOL) as an evolutionary hypothesis and a heuristic. The original TOL hypothesis has failed but a new "statistical TOL hypothesis" is promising. The TOL heuristic usefully organizes data without positing fundamental evolutionary truth. © 2011 O'Malley and Koonin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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O’Malley, M. A., & Koonin, E. V. (2011, June 30). How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin? Biology Direct. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-32

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